Quotes About Learning

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge.

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.

A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.

My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Men can learn a lot about the importance of nurturing and being in relation to the life force versus having power over.

[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Brave men don't learn from their home.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.