Quotes About Learning

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

A man doesn't learn to understand anything unless he loves it.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad.

Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

Does a man need to know what a peplum is? Probably not.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.