learning (n.)
Out of too much learning become mad.
The young gentleman, according to Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of learning, is indeed deceased; or, as you would say in plain terms, gone to heaven.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind;
Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat
To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote.
Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining,
And thought of convincing while they thought of dining:
Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.
Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he;
Full well the busy whisper circling round
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declar'd how much he knew,
'T was certain he could write and cipher too.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
No man is the wiser for his learning.
A progeny of learning.
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Wearing all that weight
Of learning lightly like a flower.
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consum'd the midnight oil?
Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.
