Quotes About Learning

You know, I'm really bad on the computer. I'm really lame, man. I read and hang out with my kids. I've turned into a five year old.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.

I do yoga, like, 20 minutes a day, but the routine that I practice I initially watched on YouTube, like, two years ago. I'm still doing that same thing. YouTube University, man. It's the best.

We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.

If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

Men should come with instruction booklets.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

The man who walks with Henslow.

A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

A man cannot paint portraits till he has seen faces.