Quotes About Learning

How much a dunce that has been sent to roamExcels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Here the heartMay give a useful lesson to the head,And Learning wiser grow without his books.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books....

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge—a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place— Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

Benares emerged as a major centre of finance and commerce as well as a unique centre of religion, education and pilgrimage. In Bengal, Nadia was the centre of Sanskrit learning and a sophisticated centre for regional architectural and Hindustani musical excellence.

Born 4th January 1935. Left school at 16 with one 'O' level in geography ( so I know my way round the world), but continued my education at the University of Real Life, than which, you will agree, there is none better.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.