A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope quote on Learning
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer | Knowledge, Learning
Here I am, back in Mecca. I am still traveling, trying to broaden my mind, for I’ve seen too much of the damage narrow-mindedness can make of things, and when I return home to America, I will devote what energies I have to repairing the damage.
Malcolm X – Learning
Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair.
Samuel Butler – Learning
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler – Life, Learning
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach
Seneca – Learning
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
Seneca – Learning, repetition
The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
Seneca – Learning by example
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau – Learning
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Henry David Thoreau – Learning
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ”spectacles” to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
William Hazlitt – Learning, Literate
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosom and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
William Hazlitt – Learning, Knowledge
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin Franklin – Unwilling to Learn
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin – Learning
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
