Quotes About Learning

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.

Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Regression effects teach us specious lessons about the relative effectiveness of reward and punishment.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

We can only learn so much and live.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you shall learn nothing.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.

Leisure is the mother of Philosophy

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8

Life isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.