Quotes About Learning

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

A man is saved no faster than he gains knowledge

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

It's almost worth the Great Depression to learn how little our big men know.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

He that is rich is wise, And all men learned poverty despise.