Quotes About Learning

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Nothing can be taught to a man, only it's possibly to help him to discover it inside.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from 'Mad Men' and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

The wisest man knows he know nothing.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.