learning Quotes

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.