Quotes About Learning

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

He has a calsium deposit on the medulla oblongota of his brain, but he is a brilliant man. This man has a BA, an MA from Havard, and a PhD from Oxford. He's a brilliant man I tell you, Mean Gene.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.

A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.

I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

We do not homeschool to avoid wicked people. We homeschool so we wicked people can talk all day about the one Man who wasn't wicked.

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.