Quotes about Learning

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.

Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know," said Mr. Brooke

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest.

The really delightful marriage must be that where your husband was a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew, if you wished it.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

The group I am moving towards is at Caleb Garth's breakfast-table in the large parlor where the maps and desk were: father, mother, and five of the children. Mary was just now at home waiting for a situation, while Christy, the boy next to her, was getting cheap learning and cheap fare in Scotland, having to his father's disappointment taken to books instead of that sacred calling business.