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| A handful of good life is better than seven bushels of learning. French. | 1 |
| A learned man can only be appreciated by another learned man. Sri Lankan. | 2 |
| A man becomes learned by asking questions. | 3 |
| A mere scholar at court is an ass among apes. | 4 |
| Do not learn to do that from which there is no advantage. Hindu. | 5 |
| Don’t learn too much, Jack, else you must do a great deal. German. | 6 |
| He is sufficiently learned that knows how to do well, and has power enough to refrain from evil. Cicero. | 7 |
| He takes the eel of science by the tail. (Index learning.) | 8 |
| He who has learned unlearns with difficulty. Modern Greek. | 9 |
| His learning overbalanceth his brain and so is a burthen. | 10 |
| I pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day. Lord Falkland. | 11 |
| If thou love learning thou shalt be learned. Isocrates. | 12 |
| It is altogether in vain to learn wisdom and yet live foolish. | 13 |
| It is good to learn at other men’s cost. | 14 |
| It is never too late to learn. | 15 |
| It is no shame for a man to learn that which he knoweth not, whatever be his age. Isocrates. | 16 |
Learning by study must be won,
’Twas ne’er entailed from sire to son. Gay. | 17 |
| Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others. | 18 |
| Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. Aristotle. | 19 |
| Learning is better than house and land. Benjamin Disraeli. | 20 |
| Learning is the eye of the mind. | 21 |
| Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. | 22 |
| Learning makes a man fit companion for himself. | 23 |
| Learning procures respect to good fortune and helps the bad. | 24 |
| Learning refines and elevates the mind. | 25 |
Learning to have and wisdom to lack,
Is a load of books on an ass’s back. Oriental. | 26 |
| Learn not and know not. | 27 |
| Learn some useful art that you may be independent of the caprice of fortune. Cato. | 28 |
| Learn the luxury of doing good. Goldsmith. | 29 |
| Learn to labor and to wait. Longfellow. | 30 |
| Never too old to learn. | 31 |
| Nobody is born learned; even bishops are made of men. Byron. | 32 |
| No man learneth but by pain or shame. Dutch. | 33 |
| No one is so old that he cannot still learn something. German. | 34 |
| One learns by falling (failing). French. | 35 |
| Soon learnt, soon forgotten. | 36 |
| Take from the learned the pleasure of being heard and their love of knowledge would vanish. Rousseau. | 37 |
| The best blood by learning is refined. | 38 |
| The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. | 39 |
| The learned man has always riches in himself. Phædrus. | 40 |
| The learned pate ducks to the golden fool. | 41 |
| The learned pig did not learn its letters in a day. Punch. | 42 |
| The most learned are not the wisest. Dutch. | 43 |
| The older one grows the more one learns. Dutch. | 44 |
| There is more learning than knowledge in the world. | 45 |
| There is no royal road to learning. | 46 |
| ’Tis harder to unlearn than to learn. | 47 |
| We are ay to learn as long as we live. | 48 |
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