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By studying the masters and not their pupils.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

The green retreats Of Academus.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Out of too much learning become mad.

And wisely tell what hour o' th' day The clock does strike by Algebra.

In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater; For he, by geometric scale, Could take the size of pots of ale.

The languages, especially the dead, The sciences, and most of all the abstruse, The arts, at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use, In all these he was much and deeply read.

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.