Learning Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Men are not narrow in their intellectual interests by nature; it takes special and rigorous training to accomplish that end.

— Jacob Viner

What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are…

— Thomas Huxley

I notice that young men go to the universities in order to become doctors or philosophers or anything, so long as it is a…

— Galileo Galilei

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

— Gertrude Atherton

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a…

— Lyndon B Johnson

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

— Luc de Clapiers

My view of university training is to unsettle the minds of young men, to widen their horizons, to inflame their intellects. It is not…

— Robert M

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most…

— Erik Erikson

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

— Woodrow Wilson

All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson