Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
Lord Chesterfield

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Lord Chesterfield

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
Donald Rumsfeld

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
Joseph P. Kennedy

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
William Congreve

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
Kwame Nkrumah

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.
John Mayer

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Hu Shih

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas More

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
Halle Berry

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
Felix Adler

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
Buddy Rich

I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Jet Li

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.
Jet Li

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
Brian Eno

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jean de La Fontaine