Learning
It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever his age.
—Socrates(ca. 470-399 B.C. Greek philosopher)
All men naturally desire to know.
—Aristotle(384-322 B.C. Greek philosopher)
Never too old to learn.
—Thomas Middleton(ca. 1570-1627 British playwright)
By the street of “By and By” one arrives at the house of “Never”.
—English proverb
You can learn from everyone.
—Derek Bok(1930- former president of Harvard University)
Live to learn, not learn to live.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)
The years teach much which the days never know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson(1830-1882 American essayist and poet)
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822 British poet)
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
—Edmund Burke(1729-1797 British statesman and orator)
He who nothing questions, nothing learns.
—Sthephen Gosson(1554-1624 British writer)
He that sips of many arts, drinks none.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater(1741-1801 Swiss poet)
Learning makes a good man better and ill man worse.
—Thomas Fuller(1608-1661 British churchman)
Intellect without morality is, so to speak, a tiger with a sword.
—Orison Marden(1848-1924 American spiritual author)
Histories make men wise; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
—Francis Bacon(1561-1626 British philosopher and author)