Lord Byron Quotes

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

I'm a pretty bookish person.

The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.

Me, I've seen 45 years and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

As precious as knowledge itself is the learning. As precious as any reward is the earning.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.