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The many-sided mind is ripe for every prize.
M. Tupper
Many a teacher, lacking judgment, hindereth his own lessons.
M. Tupper
Conscience or affection give strange keenness to the mind.
M. Tupper
Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others.
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing
an exact man.
Lord Bacon
Never yet was mind exhausted, nor one heart dug out.
M. Tupper
Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man,
and puffeth up the little man.
A little mind is boastful and incredulous, for he fancieth all
knowledge is his own.
M. Tupper
Thinking is very far from knowing.
A good education is the best dowry.
A man knows no more to any purpose than he practices.
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
Sir W. Temple
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge
to love him, and to imitate him.
Milton
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and
excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful
hands, the most mischievious.
Pope
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to
think he knows enough.
Powell
Learning, if rightly applied, makes a young man thinking,
attentive, industrious, confident and wary; and an old man
cheerful and useful. It is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge
in adversity, an entertainment at all times; it cheers in
solitude, and gives moderation and wisdom in all circumstances.
Palmer
How empty is learning, how vain is art, but as it mends the
life and guides the heart.
Young
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to
ask for information, and to my rule of conversation with all
descriptions of men on those topics that form their own
peculiar professions and pursuits.
Locke
That learning is most indespensible which unlearns evil.
Antisthenes
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylor
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor
excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness
and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training,
are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of
burden with a load of books. -- Does the ass comprehend
whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of
faggots?
Saadi
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three
pillars of learning.
Disraeli
Learning makes young men temperate, is the comfort of old age;
stands for wealth with poverty, and serves as an ornament to
riches.
Cicero
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.
Pope
He might have been a very clever man by nature, but he had laid
so many books on his head that his brain could not move.
Robert Hall
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science
of honesty and good nature.
Montaigne
The knowledge and learning that we have, is, at most, but
little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
Learning teaches to carry things in suspense, without
prejudice, till you resolve.
Bacon
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men
conclude hastily. -- Experience and humility teach modesty and
fear.
Jeremy Taylor
Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if
it be wielded by a feeble hand, or by one not well acquainted
with its use.
Montaigne
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket. -- Do
not pull it out merely to show that you have one. -- If asked
what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and
unasked, like the watchman.
Chesterfield
Some will never learn anything because they understand
everything too soon.
Blount
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or no, his
understanding is but little improved; and thus men of much
reading, though greatly learned, may be little knowing.
Loche
The true order of learning should be: first , what is
necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is
ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to
build at the top of the edifice.
Lydia H. Sigourney
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly
void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to
make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.
Shenstone
No man is 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
Better be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of
misfortune.
Plato
He that does not know those things which are of use and
necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he
may know besides.
Tillotson
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
Amos Bronson Alcott
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for
it requires knowledge to perceive it, and he that can perceive
it hath it not.
Jeremy Taylor
By ignorance is pride increased; those most assume who know the
least.
Gay
Ignorance is the mother of impudence.
Ignorance shuts its eyes and swears that it sees.
Wonder is the daughter of ignorance.
He who knows nothing is confident of everything.
Ignorance is less hateful than conceitedness.
The ignorant have an eagles's wings and an owl's eyes.
George Herbert
A wise man in the company of those who are ignorant has been
compared to a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
Saadi
A man is never astonished or ashamed that he does not know what
another does; but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the
other in not knowing what he knows.
Haliburton
It is not wisdom but ignorance that teaches men presumption.
-- Genius may sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so diffident
as knowledge.
Bulwer
Nothing is so haughty and assuming as ignorance where self-
conceit sets up to be infallible.
South
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the
deeper we penetrate the nearer we come to it. -- For what do we
truly know, or what can we clearly affirm of any one of those
important things upon which all our reasonings must of
necessity be built --- time and space, life and death, matter
and mind.
Colton
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