Antiquity Quote by Confucius

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

— Confucius

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

— Thomas Lodge

Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others.

— Confucius

Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in…

— Sarah Fielding

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

— James Clavell

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to…

— Aldous Huxley

Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.

— William E. Gladstone

“Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a…

— Francis Bacon

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

— Henry David Thoreau

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

— Jules de Goncourt

Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those…

— Samuel Johnson