Best learning & men Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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Author:Aristophanes

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.”

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Book:Psychology: The Briefer Course

Source: Psychology: The Briefer Course

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

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Author:Galileo Galilei

“Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.”

Source: The Impact of Science On Society

“A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.”

Men Trying Belief Learning Fathom

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.”

Men Learning Beast Glorious

Author:Bhartrhari

“There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.”

“A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.”

Knows Men Giving Use Learning Rain Clouds

Author:George Pope Morris

“One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.”

Men Way Wealth Learning Rich He Man Destitute

Author:Chanakya

“The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.”

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Book:The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

Source: The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

“Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.”

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Author:Pope Pius II

“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.”

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Author:Woodrow Wilson

“A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.”

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation

“Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.”

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Author:Herodotus

“Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.”

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Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.”

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Author:Vartan Gregorian

“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

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Author:Arthur Keith

“Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.”

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Author:Jon Jones

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.”

“Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.”

Men Evil Learning Bears Quantity Evil Things

Author:Wilfred Bion

“Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.”

Men Mind Education Learning College Method Acquire True Man

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.”

Men Learning Polite Liberal Education

Book:Exposition of the Old and New Testament

Source: Exposition of the Old and New Testament

“Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

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Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.”

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Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“American business men must learn human nature to the point of accepting as necessary the Rabble Rouser of the Right. . . . To get fast action somebody must stir millions to genuine anger over conditions which are adversely affecting their lives.”

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Author:Walter B. Pitkin

“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.”

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Book:True Manliness

Source: True Manliness

“But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.”

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Book:Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

Source: Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838

“We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.”

Men Two Known Learning Two Things

Author:John W. Campbell

“We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence.”

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Book:John Taylor

Source: John Taylor

“The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.”

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Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.”

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Book:Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

Source: Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.”

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Author:Sai Baba

“He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.”

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Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.”

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Book:Finishing Touches

Source: Finishing Touches

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

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