Quotes About Learning

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

The man who never reads lives only one.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

I have always advised men to read

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

The world exists for the education of each man.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

Never call a man a fool; borrow from him

Experience really does make you better, man.