Quotes About Learning

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

Man is incurably curious.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

Study men, not historians.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

We pass through elementary school, high school, and maybe college, and in one sense every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance. Education reinforces the habit of seeing the world through a certain lens. We

Every diploma is an award for developing a more sophisticated ignorance.

To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.

The cane leaves a mark on your flesh for a few hours, a day or two. The good answers to the questions leave a mark on your brain for many years, sometimes even for life," my father said.

Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.

Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.