Quotes about Learning
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
— Oswald Chambers
He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.
— JC Ryle
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton
Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.
— Leonard Ravenhill
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
— Samuel Johnson
A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.
— Thomas a Kempis
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
— George Bernard Shaw
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
— Elie Wiesel
Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.
— Aristotle
Man by Nature desires to know.
— Aristotle
Study men, not historians.
— Harry S. Truman
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
— Henry Ward Beecher