Quotes About Learning

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.

I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.

Two orders of mankind are the enemies of church and state; the king without clemency, and the holy man without learning.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

Till taught by pain, men know not water's worth.

It is foolish to expect a young man to follow your advice and to ignore your example.

The wise man once said invest young

Man knows much more than he understands.

The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.