Quotes about Learning
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Of all human pursuits, the pursuit of wisdom is the most perfect, the most sublime, the most useful, and the most agreeable.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Beware of the person of one book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Whether, besides Philosophy, any Further Doctrine Is Required? Objection 1: It seems that, besides philosophical science, we have no need of any further knowledge. For man should not seek to know what is above reason: "Seek not the things that are too high for thee" (Ecclus. 3:22). But whatever is not above reason is fully treated of in philosophical science. Therefore any other knowledge besides philosophical science is superfluous.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I fear the man of a single book.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.
— Tobias Lutke
My rookie year in New England was mind-blowing.
— Matt Cassel
Each year I have grown and learned new things.
— Jeremy Camp
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
— Cicero
Books: our unfailing companions
— Cicero
Historia magistra vitae est
— Cicero