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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I have always advised men to read.
Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
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.
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?