Quotes About Learning

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I would live to study, not study to live.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

I long to see everything, to know everything, to learn everything!

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

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

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Losers have tons of variety. Champions take pride in just learning to hit the same old boring winners.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.

I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.