Quotes About Learning

It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.

Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself.

Beware of a man of one book.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.