Books Quote by Caleb Colton

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“He who studies himself at all is ignoble. Only by despising soul as well as body can a man enter true life.”

— David Lindsay

“Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable…

— Plato

“Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The soul is superior to its knowledge; wiser than any of its works.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who acquires knowledge and acts up to it and teaches it to the people is noble to the angels of heaven and earth.…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

“The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentleman whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.”

— George Eliot

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

“The mind of man can only teach what he has learned from others. It is how you use that knowledge that will decide who…

— Micheal Rivers

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be…

— Thomas à Kempis

“Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of…

— Bill Hayes