Quotes About Learning

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play.

Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or university – it was commonsense.

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something