Learning Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
A learned fool is one who has read everything, and simply remembered it.
Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone (1714-1763) English poet Learning.
The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
No person ever knew so much that was so little of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher of Macaulay
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Sydney Smith (1771- 1845) English writer, clergyman of Macaulay as conversationalist
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, writer
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters
Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.
Holbrook Jackson (1874-1948) British author Erudition.
Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
Some people will never learn anything; for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Henry S. Haskins (b. 1875) American author
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
