Quotes About Learning

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

No man ever became wise by chance.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

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