Quotes About Learning

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

All men desire by nature to know.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge, for if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

It is always well to get near to men of genius.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.