Quotes About Learning

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.

I know so much about men because I went to night school.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.

The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.

Thousands of important and intelligent men have never been able to grasp the principle of comparative advantage or believe it even after it was explained to them

It is not suprising that the banking concept of education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings.

Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior...

Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.

Beware of the man of one book. [Lat., Home unius libri, or, cave ab homine unius libri.]

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.