Quotes About Learning

The learned is happy, nature to explore The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools,And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

To err is human

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

Be silent always when you doubt your sense; And speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence: Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you, with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critic on the last.

Be sure yourself and your own reach to know How far your genius taste and learning go.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not the things unknown, but the things forgotten.

By false learning is good sense defaced

To shoot is human, to make your own bullets is divine. Let's be honest, we were all beginners at one point or another.

But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Those half-learn'd witlings, num'rous in our isle As half-form'd insects on the banks of Nile

Een mens moet zich nooit schamen te bekennen dat hij ongelijk had, daarmee zegt hij slechts in andere woorden dat hij vandaag wijzer is dan hij gisteren was.

Algunas personas nunca aprenden nada, porque todo lo comprenden demasiado pronto.

While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

Tak ucz ludzi, jak by? nie uczy? ich wcale. Lecz przypomina? rzeczy znane im doskonale.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A Lumberhouse of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading, never to be read.

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.