“A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man… stops learning at fourteen or so.”
Source: The Known World
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Edward P. Jones 3
Novelist, short story writer 1951Related quotes
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 74
“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.
Book VI, fable 22, line 1
Fables
“Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.”
1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
Context: Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
“Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
1963, Address at Vanderbilt University
Context: The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
Variant: A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”