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A learned fool is one who has read everything, and simply remembered it.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William shenstone (1714-1763) English poet.
Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
No person ever knew so much that was sp little of purpose.
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters.
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) British author.
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
Some people will never learn anything; for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Henry S.Haskins (b.1875) American author.
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet.
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
Sir W.Temple.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; and mid-day, when he us highest, none at all.
Bp. Hall.
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.
Lavater.
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue.
Milton.
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.
Mrs. Sigourney.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent thingsi nthe world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
Pope.
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 purpose of sense or happiness.
Shenstone.
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that 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.
A heap of ill chosen erudition is but the luggage of antiquity.
Balzac.
Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man that has great advantage from nature and birth; whether the weight and number of so many men’s thoughts and notions may not suppress his own or hinder the motion and agitation of them, from which all invention; arises; as heaping on wood, or too many sticks, or too close together, suppresses, and sometimes quite extinguishes a little spark, that would otherwise have grown up to a noble flame.
Sir W.Temple.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William shenstone (1714-1763) English poet.
Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
No person ever knew so much that was sp little of purpose.
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters.
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) British author.
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.
Some people will never learn anything; for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English Poet.
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Henry S.Haskins (b.1875) American author.
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet.
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
Sir W.Temple.
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; and mid-day, when he us highest, none at all.
Bp. Hall.
Learning is wealth to the poor, an honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and a support and comfort to the aged.
He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.
Lavater.
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love him, and to imitate him, as we may the nearest, by possessing our souls of true virtue.
Milton.
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.
Mrs. Sigourney.
Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent thingsi nthe world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
Pope.
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 purpose of sense or happiness.
Shenstone.
He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that 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.
A heap of ill chosen erudition is but the luggage of antiquity.
Balzac.
Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man that has great advantage from nature and birth; whether the weight and number of so many men’s thoughts and notions may not suppress his own or hinder the motion and agitation of them, from which all invention; arises; as heaping on wood, or too many sticks, or too close together, suppresses, and sometimes quite extinguishes a little spark, that would otherwise have grown up to a noble flame.
Sir W.Temple.
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