Wise without learning. [ Horace ]
Whence is thy learning? hath thy toil
O'er books consumed the midnight oil? [ Gay ]
Manners and learning make a gentleman. [ Proverb ]
Learning without thought is labor lost. [ Confucius ]
With just enough of learning to misquote. [ Byron ]
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience. [ Yogi Berra ]
Much learning is a weariness of the flesh. [ Proverb ]
Let ignorance talk, learning has its value. [ La Fontaine ]
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink,
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think. [ J. G. Saxe ]
A little learning is a dangerous thing:
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. [ Alexander Pope ]
My learning is play, and my play is learning. [ Van Alphen ]
Learning makes a man fit company for himself. [ Proverb ]
The sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. [ Bible ]
Stillness accompanied with sound so soft,
Charms more than silence. Meditation here
May think down hours to moments. Here the heart
May give an useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books. [ Cowper ]
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility. [ Lord J. Manners ]
Without a genius, learning soars in vain;
And, without learning, genius sinks again;
Their force united, crowns the sprightly reign. [ Elphinston ]
Learning is better than houses, lands, or money. [ Proverb ]
Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. [ Browning ]
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. [ Pope ]
A man of many letters, (i.e. of extensive learning).
A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning. [ George Herbert ]
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse. [ Proverb ]
Learning in an ill man, is good wine in a musty bottle. [ Proverb ]
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
His learning overbalances his brain, and so is a burden. [ Proverb ]
There is much more learning than knowledge in the world. [ Proverb ]
That man is learned who reduceth his learning to practice. [ Hitopadesa ]
A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn love. [ Ricard ]
The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. [ Proverb ]
The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long learning. [ Seneca ]
They favor learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet. [ Joseph Joubert ]
You may pay for your schooling more than your learning is worth. [ Proverb ]
To know where you can find a thing is the chief part of learning.
Folly and learning (such as it is) often dwell in the same person. [ Proverb ]
Learning is worse lodged in him, than Jove was in a thatched house. [ Proverb ]
Learning by study must be won 'Twas never entailed from sire to son. [ Gay ]
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [ St. Paul ]
Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. [ Fuller ]
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. [ Colton ]
Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. [ Solon ]
The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual. [ Seneca ]
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend on it. [ Willmott ]
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Learning in the hand of some is a sceptre, in that of others a fool's bauble. [ Proverb ]
Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning. [ F. W. Faber ]
Diligence is the mother, while negligence is but a step-dame to all learning. [ Boethius ]
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men. [ W. B. Clulow ]
All of us learn to write in second grade, then most of us go on to better things. [ Bob Knight ]
Every one is weary: the poor in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If we succeed in acquiring the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. [ Sir John Lubbock ]
He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. [ Richard Steele ]
A little philosophy leads men to despise learning; a great deal leads them to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. [ Richard Baxter ]
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy. [ Young ]
A man of a great memory, without learning, hath a rock and a spindle, and no staff to spin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. [ Blanco White ]
Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. [ John Ruskin ]
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion - a form of knowledge without the power of it. [ Addison ]
Men of wit. learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. [ Swift ]
A small inkling of philosophy leads man to despise learning; much philosophy leads man to esteem it. [ Chamfort ]
No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
In experiencing the ills of nature, one despises death; in learning the evils of society, one despises life. [ Chamfort ]
Do not then train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds. [ Plato ]
Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. [ Seneca ]
Learning the liberal arts and sciences thoroughly, softens men's manners, and prevents their being a pack of brutes. [ Ovid ]
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. [ William Penn ]
A man's appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of. [ Steele ]
Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. [ Plutarch ]
The happiness of the human race in this world does not consist in our being devoid of passions, but in our learning to command them. [ From the French ]
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. [ Wilkins ]
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity. [ S. Smiles ]
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. [ Selden ]
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions; but generally act according to custom. [ Bacon ]
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, and learning, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! [ Swift ]
No man will harbor any fear of degradation in the ranks of literature, because he has devoted his portion of ability and learning to the drudgery of a dictionary. [ C. Richardson ]
Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. [ John Morley ]
Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. [ Spectator ]
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might dispose us to modesty, for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance. [ Frances Kemble ]
Nobody can live by teaching any more than by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it. [ John Ruskin ]
In the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a State, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. [ Bacon ]
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. [ Addison ]
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened beauty of Virgil, and Spenser revives in the decorated learning of Gray. [ Willmott ]
The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.' [ Willmott ]
Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning humility, and virtue; - that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy. [ Sterne ]
Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning glasses - to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination. [ Swift ]
Diligence is the mistress of learning, without which nothing can either be spoken or done in this life with commendation, and without which it is altogether impossible to prove learned, much less excellent in any science. [ Madeleine Guerchois ]
The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights, frequently repeated, the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions. [ Locke ]
Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world. [ Bishop Butler ]
He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. [ Roger Ascham ]
Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion. [ Webster ]
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]
Where are Shakespeare's imagination, Bacon's learning, Galileo's dream? Where is the sweet fancy of Sidney, the airy spirit of Fletcher, and Milton's thought severe? Methinks such things should not die and dissipate, when a hair can live for centuries, and a brick of Egypt will last three thousand years. I am content to believe that the mind of man survives, somehow or other, his clay. [ Barry Cornwall ]
The mother, under whose sole influence the child is for years, from whom it acquires its tastes and character, should not only be educated, but educated in the most thorough manner, and have her mind stored with varied learning, so that she may be able to answer the multitude of questions that will be put to her by her inquisitive child on art, science, literature, and religion, and thus to stimulate his curiosity, and awaken his mind. [ E. B. Ramsay ]
Eyes are bold as lions, roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages; they wait for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude, and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. What inundation of life and thought is discharged from one soul into another through them! [ Emerson ]
We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]