Quotes About Learning

No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and the happiest of the children of men.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

The one knowing what is profitable, and not the man knowing many things, is wise.

All men are ignorant, just in different fields.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.