Quotes About Learning

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

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

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Keine zauberwirkende Rune ist wunderbarer als ein Buch. Bücher sind das auserlesene Besitztum der Menschen.

The greatest university is a collection of books.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Akan jadi apakah kita, bergantung pada apa yang kita baca setelah semua profesor menyelesaikan urusannya dengan kita

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Folly is that wisdom which is wise only behindhand.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.

Al wat de mensheid heeft gedaan, gedacht, gewonnen, of is geweest, dat ligt als door toverkunst vastgelegd in boeken.