Book Learning Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.
— Brian Reynolds
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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
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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
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
— Ezra Pound
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
— Idries Shah
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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
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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
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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
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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: