A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.