Quotes About Learning

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

A man may be theologically knowing and spiritually ignorant.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.

No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.

One fool can ask more questions in a minute than 12 wise men can answer in an hour.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.

I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Educated men are so impressive.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Every now and then you meet a man whose ignorance is encyclopedic.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.