Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment. Novalis.

Learning is strength inexhaustible. Hitopadesa.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar, of science. Sterne.

Learning is the source of renown, and the fountain of victory in the senate. Hitopadesa.

Learning itself, received into a mind / By 30 nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves but to lead philosophers astray, / Where children would with ease discern the way. Cowper.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly devoid of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense and happiness. Shenstone.

Learning, like the lunar beam, affords light, not heat. Young.

Learning makes a man a fit companion for himself. Pr.

Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it. Pr.

Learning needs rest; sovereignty gives it. 35 Sovereignty needs counsel; learning affords it. Ben Jonson.