Human experience Quote by Henry David Thoreau

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science…

— Henry David Thoreau

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.

— Samuel Johnson

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details…

— Percival Lowell

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning;…

— Anonymous

In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how…

— Wilder Penfield

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

— Charles Caleb Colton

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

— Will Rogers

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

— Napoleon Hill

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind…

— Confucius

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

— Anonymous

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

— Jean de La Fontaine