Quotes About Learning

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me no more.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.