Quotes About Learning

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

A man's head is not like a scallion, which will grow again if you cut it off; if you cut it off wrongly, then even if you want to correct your error, there is no way of doing it.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and the old buzzard won't be hanging around, underfoot, all weekend.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city.

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.