Quotes About Learning

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.

Man by Nature desires to know.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

Some men grow mad by studying much to know, But who grows mad by studying good to grow.

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Any one can give advice, such as it is, but only a wise man knows how to profit by it.

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

A well-trained man knows how to answer questions; an educated man knows what questions are worth asking.