To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together. Francis Bacon
Love, too, has to be learned.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
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Michel De Montaigne
But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
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Sarah Dessen
One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.
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Richelle E. Goodrich
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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Voltaire
More Quotes By Francis Bacon
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
The serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. Therefore...
