Quotes About Learning

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Wise men profit more by fools than fools by wise men.

But how do you teach a child to grasp that complexity? You teach them to grasp the style of thinking. There are no answers, only questions that shape your understanding, and which in turn reveal more questions.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

Secondly, I continued my education in a more important way, through the observation of everyone around me, because nothing is more important to learn in life than the interaction of a human being with another human being.

When people don't take the time to become well educated, they are most likely making their decision based solely on price, which generally means they're not the best fit.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?