Dull Quote by Charles Churchill

A great deal of learning can be packed into an empty head.

— Karl Kraus

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...

— Jonathan Swift

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

— William Godwin

Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had…

— Anonymous

Even while writing his book, he had become painfully aware how little he knew his own planet while attempting to piece together another one…

— Vladimir Nabokov

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

— Miguel de Cervantes

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

— Richard Steele

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

— John Green

“He did not torture himself with vain attempts to hold his brain as a mirror to his heart, that he might read his heart…

— George MacDonald

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

— Aphra Behn

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf

“with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. His fancy grew full of what he used…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra