Quotes about Learning

People have now a-days, (said he,) got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do so much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken. I know nothing that can be best taught by lectures, except where experiments are to be shewn. You may teach chymistry by lectures.—You might teach making of shoes by lectures!

ACROAMATICAL  (ACROAMA'TICAL)   adj.[   Gr. I bear.]Of or pertaining to deep learning; the opposite of exoterical.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

He that adopts the sentiments of another whom he has reason to believe wiser than himself is only to be blamed when he claims the honours which are not due but to the author, and endeavours to deceive the world into praise and veneration; for to learn is the proper business of youth; and whether we increase our knowledge by books, or by conversation, we are equally indebted to foreign assistance.

Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

here I was, eager for Learning and intellectual companionship—maybe even a disputation or two.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.