Quotes About Learning

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

Education is an asset no man can take away.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

ThereÂ's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.