Ability Quote by Samuel Johnson

The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot…

— Charles Darwin

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require,…

— Samuel Johnson

“The educational element in the adab discussion of knowledge is unmistakable in a monograph entitled “The Encouragement of Seeking and Being Eager to Gather…

— Franz Rosenthal

The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the…

— John Locke

“If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order, he will have to learn that…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“But William Stoner knew of the world in a way that few of his younger colleagues could understand. Deep in him, beneath his memory,…

— John Williams

There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is…

— Henry Fielding

If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem very lightweight…

— Elizabeth Goudge

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

— Samuel Johnson

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

— Bernard Malamud

“Though he had both esteem and admiration for the sensibility of the human race, he had little respect for their intelligence: man has always…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“A human being needs to endure something in order to learn to assess himself correctly, and not least to learn to think with others.…

— Pope Benedict XVI