Quotes about Learning
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
— Henry David Thoreau
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
— Shimon Peres
No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey.
— Thomas a Kempis
Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.
— Charles Spurgeon
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
— CS Lewis
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