Proverbs:

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