Quotes About Learning

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

Stand-up is every man for himself; you learn from hanging out at these clubs and watching other guys, and then trying not to be like them.

Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.