Quotes About Learning

Lessons cut short to prep for tests that only test how well you prep. ...Man, no wonder why the score's a mess.

It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.

It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.

I see many more men who are feminist, or at least who have learned about life in the context of feminism.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.

Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

The greatest Clerkes be not the wisest men.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.