John Gay Quotes

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

It's been a while since I've studied: since high school. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running.

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

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

Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.