Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.
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