Quotes about Learning
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.
- CS Lewis
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
- Charles Spurgeon
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
- Cormac McCarthy
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Education is an asset no man can take away.
- George Eliot
Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.
- Gordon Hinckley
A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.
- Martin Luther
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
- Phillips Brooks
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
- Henry David Thoreau
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
- Henry Ward Beecher