Book Learning Quotes

14 quotes by 14 authors

• It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard
• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is… — George William Curtis
• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards… — Eric Hoffer
• Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce
• Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. — Brian Reynolds
• My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early… — Richard McKenna
• To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making… — Harry Callahan
• The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. — Ezra Pound
• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
• The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun. — Dusty Baker
• Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive… — Sue Thoele
• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I… — Howard Zinn

Who Wrote These Book Learning Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 14 Book Learning Quotes as follows:

• 1 Book Learning Quote by Elbert Hubbard
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Nikola Tesla
• 1 Book Learning Quote by George William Curtis
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Eric Hoffer
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Brian Reynolds
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Richard McKenna
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Harry Callahan
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Ezra Pound
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Idries Shah
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Yi-Fu Tuan
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Dusty Baker
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Sue Thoele
• 1 Book Learning Quote by Howard Zinn