Quotes About Learning

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

Education makes some men wiser, others more ridiculous and foolish!

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they know it.

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

Man must suffer to be wise.

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.

Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men.