Learning

"Truth that has been merely learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; at best, like a nose made out of another’s flesh; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thinking of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us. This is the fundamental difference between the thinker and the mere man of learning."

"Abraham Van Helsing: Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!"

"By following craftiness, one learns how to be crafty. By following wisdom, one learns how to be wise."

"Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower."

"It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories."

"Why does one stop learning till he dies when it makes all lands and place his?"

"Learning proceeds until death and only then does it stop. ... Its purpose cannot be given up for even a moment. To pursue it is to be human, to give it up to be a beast."

"The learning of the gentleman enters through his ears, fastens to his heart, spreads through his four limbs, and manifests itself in his actions. ... The learning of the petty person enters through his ears and passes out his mouth. From mouth to ears is only four inches—how could it be enough to improve a whole body much larger than that?"

"Much learning doth make thee mad."

"It is always in season for old men to learn."

"The green retreats Of Academus."

"Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust."

"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."

"The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument."

"And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche."

"Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum."

"When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind."

"Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books."

"Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring."

"Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning."

"Extremæ est dementiæ discere dediscenda."

"There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry."

"Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son."

"Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?"

"Walkers at leisure learning's flowers may spoil Nor watch the wasting of the midnight oil."

"I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine And even, alas, Theology From end to end with labor keen; And here, poor fool; with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."

"Men of polite learning and a liberal education."

"A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise."

"Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes And pause awhile from Learning to be wise; Yet think what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. See nations, slowly wise and meanly just, To buried merit raise the tardy bust."

"Nosse velint omnes, mercedem solvere nemo."

"The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind From being silent brutes to singing men."

"Thou art an heyre to fayre lyving, that is nothing, if thou be disherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite righteousnesse then riches, and far more seemly were it for thee to haue thy Studie full of bookes, then thy pursse full of mony."

"He [Steele] was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes."

"He [Temple] was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world."

"Il ne l'en fault pas arrouser, il l'en fault teindre."

"Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublie."

"Ein Gelehrter hat keine Langweile."

"Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima."

"Few men make themselves Masters of the things they write or speak."

"No man is the wiser for his Learning * * * Wit and Wisdom are born with a man."

"Homines, dum docent, discunt."

"Learning is but an adjunct to ourself And where we are our learning likewise is."

"When you're through learning, you're through."

"I believe that every human being with a physically normal brain can learn a great deal and can be surprisingly intellectual. I believe that what we badly need is social approval of learning and social rewards for learning. We can all be members of the intellectual elite and then, and only then, will a phrase like "America's right to know" and, indeed, any true concept of democracy, have any meaning."

"O my God! What miseries and mockeries did I then experience when it was impressed on me that obedience to my teachers was proper to my boyhood estate if I was to flourish in this world and distinguish myself in those tricks of speech which would gain honor for me among men, and deceitful riches! To this end I was sent to school to get learning."

"To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar."

"The world itself is a great fusing pot, out of which the One Humanity is emerging. This necessitates a drastic change in our methods of presenting history and geography. Science has always been universal. Great art and literature have always belonged to the world. It is upon these facts that the education to be given to the children of the world must be built - upon our similarities, our creative achievements, our spiritual idealisms, and our points of contact. Unless this is done, the wounds of the nations will never be healed, and the barriers which have existed for centuries will never be removed... Two major ideas should be taught to the children of every country. They are: the value of the individual and the fact of the one humanity."

"One of our immediate educational objectives must be the elimination of the competitive spirit, and the substitution of the co-operative consciousness."