“This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.”
Desiderius Erasmus
“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
Anatole France
“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books”
Chinese Proverbs
“You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.”
Oscar Wilde
“A man becomes a scholar by the help of self-study and proper analysis of whatever he has studied.”
Rig Veda
“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”
George Bernard Shaw
