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William Shakespeare Quotes about Learning

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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

William Shakespeare
Witty, Learning, Dinner
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Sam Johnson”, p.181

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

William Shakespeare
Learning, Simple, Simplicity
Sonnet 66

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

William Shakespeare
Education, Learning, Years
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson (1765). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes”, p.19

In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

William Shakespeare
Business, Learning, Eye
William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

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