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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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| "Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by
questioning." | |
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| "All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the
price." | |
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Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal
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| "As long as you live, keep learning how to live." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good
learner would not miss." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "By the time you"re eighty years old you"ve learned everything. You
only have to remember it." | |
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George Burns
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| "Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in
school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as
a new problem which is only partly solved." | |
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Margaret Mead
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| "Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind as
harrowing and planting those of the earth." | |
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Margaret Sarah Fuller
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| "Forget that I remember And dream that I forget." | |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
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| "He who adds not to his learning, diminishes it." | |
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The Talmud
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| "I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being
taught." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "I am still learning." | |
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Michelangelo
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| "I"ve known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet
never had a thought." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the
future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world
that no longer exists." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or
set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone
for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is
learning how to learn." | |
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John Naisbitt
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| "It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to
know." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "It is what we know already that often prevents us from
learning." | |
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Claude Bernard
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| "It"s great to be great, but it"s greater to be human." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are
interested in." | |
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Richard Saul Wurman
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| "Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and
insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its
relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as
learning." | |
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Gary Ryan Blair
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| "Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a
provision in old age." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." | |
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming
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| "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st
century." | |
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Perelman
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| "Learning without thought is labor lost; Thought without learning is
perilous." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the
studious." | |
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Ambrose Bierce
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| "Lessons are not given, they are taken." | |
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Cesare Pavese
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| "Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without
liberty is always in vain." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument
as one goes on." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "Live to learn ... forget ... and learn again." | |
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Aristide Briand
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| "Much learning does not teach understanding." | |
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Heraclitus
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| "Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is
improperly exposed." | |
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Sydney Smith
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| "Only the curious will learn, only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The Quest quotient has always excited me more than
the intelligence quotient." | |
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Eugene S. Wilson
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| "People create stories create people; or rather stories create people
create stories." | |
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Chinua Achebe
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| "Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three
pillars of learning." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they
understand everything too soon." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you"ve
understood all your life, but in a new way." | |
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Doris Lessing
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| "That"s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and how we"ve changed because of it and what we take away
from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a
curious way, is winning." | |
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Richard David Bach
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| "The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from
you." | |
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B. B. King
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| "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." | |
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Don Herold
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| "The important thing is not so much that every child should be
taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." | |
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Sir John Lubbock
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| "The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the
avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any
obstruction in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought, so far, to be
esteemed a benefactor to mankind." | |
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David Hume
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| "There are more fools than wise men; and even in wise men, more folly
than wisdom." | |
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Nicholas Chamfort
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| "There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time,
which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are
the very simplest things and, because it takes a man"s life to know them,
the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only
heritage he has to leave." | |
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Ernest Hemingway
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| "There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and
yearning." | |
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Christopher Darlington Morley
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| "There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things
in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows
slowly, endures." | |
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Josiah Gilbert Holland
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| "To Ptolemy I: There is no royal road to geometry." | |
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Euclid
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| "To teach is to learn twice." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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| "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond;
cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Learning
together." | |
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Thomas Stearns Eliot
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| "We have need of very little learning to have a good mind." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; And do not
pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one." | |
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Philip Dormer Shanhope, Lord Chesterfield
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| "What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use
things instead of using people and loving things." | |
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Unknown
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| "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the
soul." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O"er books consumed the
midnight oil?" | |
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John Gay
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| "Who are the learned? They who practise what they know." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher." | |
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Proverb
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| "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." | |
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Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder
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| "You live and learn. At any rate, you live." | |
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Douglas Noel Adams
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| "You live and learn. Or you don"t live long." | |
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Robert Anson Heinlein
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| "You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to
be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is
within the lover." | |
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Henri Matisse
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