Quotes About Learning

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.

Mountain gorses, do ye teach us . . . . That the wisest word man reaches Is the humblest he can speak?

Books are men of higher stature.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.