Quotes About Learning

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

[Science is] the desire to know causes.

Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn, and laughter.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.

If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]

Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Those who ignore financial history are condemned to repeat it.

Personal finance, like most important aspects of life, is a never-ending quest. The competent investor never stops learning.

William J. Bouwsma

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.