Quotes About Learning

If you protect a man from folly, you will soon have a nation of fools.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.

Am I supposed to be a man? Am I supposed to say, 'It's okay, I don't mind, I don't mind'? Well, I mind! I mind big time! And you know what the worst part is? I never learned to read!

The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer.

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know the things he thinks he knows.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.