Training and Learning
Quotations
Compiled by J Jolie
SparQ Corporate Training
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), “The Devil’s
Dictionary”, 1911
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by
the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J. One day a wag—what
would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And
said it was a god’s name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and
postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns,
And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and
maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed,
the populace that rites attend, Believe whate’er they cannot
comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so
and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit
Than Nature’s hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and
wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the
priests.
Unknown
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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and
yearning.”
A tradition attributed to Muhammad
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“The preeminence of a learned man over a worshiper is equal to the
preeminence of the moon, at the night of the full moon, over all the
stars. Verily, the learned men are the heirs of the Prophets.”
Abigail Adams, 1780
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor
and attended to with diligence.”
Alan Kay, “Computer Software”, Scientific
American, September 1984
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“Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep
enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing
fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material
must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and
letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any
less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?”
Albert Einstein
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“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to
learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the
spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to
which your later work belongs.”
Aldous Huxley
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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others
(history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical
prejudices allow them to learn.”
Alexander Pope
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“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because
they understand everything too soon.”
Alfred Adler
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“There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a
few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or
the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.”
Alfred Mercier
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“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
Alfred Sheinwold
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“Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time
to make them all yourself.”
Alice Duer Miller
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“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut
off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by
artificial means. Thus we suppress the child’s curiosity and then
when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special
coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”
Alvin Toffler
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“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read.
It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
American
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“Experience without learning is better than learning without
experience.”
American
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“Experience without learning is better than learning without
experience.”
Andre Gide
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“There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in
your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself,
‘It all depends on me.’”
Ann Landers
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“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should
learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and
brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
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“Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
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“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to
grow.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
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“Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
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“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.”
Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book
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“You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than
you do.”
Aristophanes
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“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes,
not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
and ships of war . . .”
Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
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“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”
Aristotle
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“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by
doing them.”
Author Unknown
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“A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.”
Author Unknown
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“A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn
after he got it.”
Author Unknown
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“It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.”
Author Unknown
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“Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit
them and willing to learn from them”
B.F. Skinner
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“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten”
Barbra Streisand
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“A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I
learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what
you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover
you, what you do, and trust it.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three
pillars of learning.”
Bill Tammeus, in Toronto’s National
Newspaper, 1991
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“Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of
gas stations, which otherwise wouldn’t learn of it for six months.”
Billy Florence, on the value of dreambuilding
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“He’s not dumb; he knows what he’s doing. He’s done that for years
... he’s learned that if the dream’s big enough, the facts don’t count.”
Bishop Taylor
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“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”
Bob Edwards
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as
bad.”
Bobby Knight
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“All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to
greater things.”
Bokonon, Cat’s Cradle
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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it,
and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous
resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their
ignorance the hard way.”
Booker T. Washington
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“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in
tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
Brian
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“Live to learn... forget... and learn again.”
Brian Adams
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“Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when
they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience
breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates
confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually
leads to success.”
Carl Rogers
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“I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to
see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly
contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.”
Carl Sagan
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“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
have learned English—up to fifty words used in correct context—no
human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”
Christopher Morley
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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and
yearning.”
Cicero
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“When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in
quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every
word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming
mind.”
Clarence Darrow
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“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going
to speak it to?”
Clint Eastwood
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“There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I
learn what it is I’ll get married again.”
Confucius
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which
is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by
experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
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“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does
not learn is in great danger.”
Dan Rather
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“A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody
wishes you well.”
Dave Barry, “$#$##^#!^#&@#@!”
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I disapprove of the F-word, not because it’s dirty, but because
we use it as a substitute for thoughtful insults, and it
frequently leads to violence. What we ought to do, when we
anger each other, say, in traffic, is exchange phone numbers,
so that later on, when we’ve had time to think of witty and
learned insults or look them up in the library, we could call
each other up: You: Hello? Bob? Bob: Yes? You: This is Ed.
Remember? The person whose parking space you took last
Thursday? Outside of Sears? Bob: Oh yes! Sure! How are you,
Ed? You: Fine, thanks. Listen, Bob, the reason I’m calling is:
“Madam, you may be drunk, but I am ugly, and ...” No, wait. I
mean: “you may be ugly, but I am Winston Churchill and ...”
No, wait. (Sound of refer- ence book thudding onto the floor.)
S-word. Excuse me. Look, Bob, I’m going to have to get back
to you. Bob: Fine.
Dave Barry, “Christmas
Shopping: A Survivor’s Guide”
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Gifts for Men—Men are amused by almost any idiot thing—that is
why professional ice hockey is so popular—so buying gifts for them is
easy. But you should never buy them clothes. Men believe they
already have all the clothes they’ll ever need, and new ones make
them nervous. For example, your average man has 84 ties, but he
wears, at most, only 3 of them. He has learned, through humiliating
trial & error, that if he wears any of the other 81 ties, his wife will
probably laugh at him (“You’re not going to wear THAT tie with that
suit, are you?”). So he has narrowed it down to three safe ties, and
has gone several years without be- ing laughed at. If you give him a
new tie, he will pretend to like it, but deep inside he will hate you. If
you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More
than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set
of tires.
Dave Barry, “Christmas Shopping: A
Survivor’s Guide”
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... Now you’re ready for the actual shopping. Your goal should be to
get it over with as quickly as possible, because the longer you stay in
the mall, the longer your children will have to listen to holiday songs
on the mall public- address system, and many of these songs can
damage children emotionally. For example: “Frosty the Snowman” is
about a snowman who befriends some children, plays with them
until they learn to love him, then melts. And “Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer” is about a young reindeer who, because of a physical
deformity, is treated as an outcast by the other reindeer.Then along
comes good old Santa. Does he ignore the deformity? Does he look
past Rudolph’s nose and respect Rud- olph for the sensitive reindeer
he is underneath? No, Santa asks Rudolph to guide his sleigh, as if
Rudolph were nothing more than some kind of headlight with legs
and a tail. So unless you want your children exposed to this kind of
insensitivity, you should shop quickly.
Dave Barry, “Pain and Suffering”
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“Hi, I’m Preston A. Mantis, president of Consumers
Retail Law Outlet. As you can see by my suit and
the fact that I have all these books of equal height
on the shelves behind me, I am a trained legal
attorney. Do you have a car or a job? Do you ever
walk around? If so, you probably have the makings
of an excellent legal case. Although of course every
case is different, I would definitely say that based
on my experience and training, there’s no reason
why you should not come out of this thing with at
least a cabin cruiser. “Remember, at the Preston A.
Mantis Consumers Retail Law Outlet, our motto is:
‘It is very difficult to disprove certain kinds of
pain.’”
Dave Barry, “Saving Face”
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What I do, first thing [in the morning], is I hop into the shower stall.
Then I hop right back out, because when I hopped in I landed
barefoot right on top of See Threepio, a little plastic robot character
from “Star Wars” whom my son, Robert, likes to pull the legs off of
while he showers. Then I hop right back into the stall because our
dog, Earnest, who has been alone in the basement all night building
up powerful dog emotions, has come bounding and quivering into
the bathroom and wants to greet me with 60 or 70 thousand playful
nips, any one of which—bear in mind that I am naked and, without
my contact lenses, essen- tially blind—could result in the kind of
injury where you have to learn a whole new part if you want to sing
the “Messiah”, if you get my drift. Then I hop right back out,
because Robert, with that uncanny sixth sense some children have—
you cannot teach it; they either have it or they don’t—has chosen
exactly that moment to flush one of the toilets. Perhaps several of
them.
Dave Barry, “What is Electricity?”
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Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important
electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet,
then reach your hand into a friend’s mouth and touch one of his
dental fillings. Did you notice how your friend twitched violently and
cried out in pain? This teaches us that electricity can be a very
powerful force, but we must never use it to hurt others unless we
need to learn an important electrical lesson. It also teaches us how
an electrical circuit works. When you scuffed your feet, you picked
up batches of “electrons”, which are very small objects that carpet
manufacturers weave into carpets so they will attract dirt. The
electrons travel through your bloodstream and collect in your finger,
where they form a spark that leaps to your friend’s filling, then
travels down to his feet and back into the carpet, thus completing
the circuit. Amazing Electronic Fact: If you scuffed your feet long
enough without touching anything, you would build up so many
electrons that your finger would explode! But this is nothing to worry
about unless you have carpeting.
David Russell
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“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which
to burn.”
Dennie van Tassel
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“I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we
get to keep all our old mistakes.”
Doris Lessing
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“In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is
learning to tolerate fools.”
Doris Lessing
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“In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is
learning to tolerate fools.”
Douglas Adams
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“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Douglas Adams
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“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so.”
Dr. David M. Burns
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“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be
wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and
move forward with your life.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as
fools.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with
them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they
may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for
our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and
planes and tanks and ships of war.”
Ebner-Eschenbach
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“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
Ed Howe
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“If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to
laugh at when you’re old.”
Edmund Burke
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“It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn
everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more
efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our
opinions, our lives.”
Edward Fitzgerald
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“Leave well - even ‘pretty well’ - alone: that is what I learn as I get
old.”
Edward Young
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“Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how
little worldings enjoy.”
Edward Young
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“Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how
little worldings enjoy.”
Elizabeth Taylor, absurd non-sequitur about
Michael Jackson
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“I think Michael is like litmus paper - he’s always trying to learn.”
Epictetus
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“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
Epistle of Paul
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“I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content.”
Eric Hoffer
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“You dehumanize a man as much by returning him to nature - by
making him one with rocks, vegetation, and animals - as by turning
him into a machine. Both the natural and the mechanical are the
opposite of that which is uniquely human. Nature is a self-made
machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine.
To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,
and it was by learning the inner working of nature that man became
a builder of machines. It is also obvious that when man
domesticated animals and plants he acquired self-made machines for
the production of food, power, and beauty.”
Eric Hoffer
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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.”
Ernest Hemingway
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.
Most people never listen.”
Eugene S. Wilson
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“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the
obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me
more than the intelligence quotient.”
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning,
1605
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“Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk.”
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something
from him.”
Garry Marshall, “Wake Me When It’s Funny”
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“It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your
mistakes seem worthwhile.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”
George Bernard Shaw
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“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from
experience.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man
can never learn anything from history.”
George Bernard Shaw, “St. Joan”
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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Santayana
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“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”
Goethe
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“Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.”
Hannah More
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“It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value
of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we
know.”
Helen Keller
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“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy
in the world.”
Henry Bolingbroke
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“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to
unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first
principles, and take nobody’s word about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances
confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the
life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.”
Henry David Thoreau
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“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of
mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”
Henry Ford
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“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger,
even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to
develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs
which we endure help us in our marching onward.”
Henry L. Stimson
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“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to
make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make
him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his
virtues.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Morituri
Salutamus,” 1875
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,/ And all the sweet
serenity of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1839
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“Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still
achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.”
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground
and miss.”
Igor Stravinsky
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“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my
mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to
founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
Indira Gandhi
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“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to vibrantly
alive in repose.”
Jack Handey
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I guess more bad things have been done in the name of progress
than any other. I myself have been guilty of this. When I was a teenager, I stole a car and drove it out into the desert and set it on fire.
When the police showed up, I just shrugged and said, “Hey,
progress.” Boy, did I have a lot to learn.
James W. Fulbright, March 27, 1964
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“We must dare to think “unthinkable” thoughts. We must learn to
explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex
and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to
fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about “unthinkable
things” because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and
action becomes mindless.”
Jean Kerr
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“Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He
pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.”
Jeremy Taylor
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“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”
Jeremy Taylor
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“To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.”
Jewish Proverb
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“Don’t look for more honor than your learning merits.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or
suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that
means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We
are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”
John Davy
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“There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which
lines are moving, while the child sits almost motionless, pushing at
the keyboard with one finger. As a learning environment, it may be
mentally rich, but it is perceptually extremely impoverished. No
smells or tastes, no wind or bird song (unless the computer is
programmed to produce electronic tweets), no connection with soil,
water, sunlight, warmth, the actual learning environment is almost
autistic in quality, impoverished sensually, emotionally, and socially.”
John Dewey
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“We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or
kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete,
individualized, unique.”
John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery
in Dallas the day of his assassination,
November 22, 1963
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John Locke
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“Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his
understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading,
though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.”
John Lubbock
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“A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet
knows, how much he has still to learn.”
John McCormack, Self-Made in America
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“Another lesson I learned was not to give pieces of my company
away when it was small in exchange for investment capital. In the
first place, those shares would be worth millions today. Even more
important, when you bring in shareholders, the government can start
looking around at your business and telling you what to do, and let
me tell you, the government knows nothing about running a
business!”
John Wayne
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“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at
midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in
our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.”
John Wooden
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“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
Johnson
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“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly
charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to
prevent.”
Johnson
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“Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that
preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn
a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a
translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any
language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the
language.”
Joseph Addison
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“There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so
useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and
sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the
advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit,
impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts
only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his
own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants
discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he
has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of
others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life.”
Joseph Sugarman
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“Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity.
They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more
than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and
learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in
disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing
one of the most powerful success forces.”
Juliene Berk
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“Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some
satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other,
better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad,
is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a
means of satisfaction.”
Kabbalah (BC 1200?-700? AD)
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“We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy
root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds
are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce
flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.”
Kahlil Gibran
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“I’ve developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a
time.”—Charlie Brown I have learnt silence from the talkative,
toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet
strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
Katharine Whitehorn
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“The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you
not to have any.”
Kimon Nicolaides
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“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see—to see
correctly—and that means a good deal more than merely looking
with the eye.”
Kurt Vonnegut, “Cat’s Cradle”
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“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it,
and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full
of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having
come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Lao-Tzu (fl. BC 600)
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“The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material
from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may
be learned. Such is the essential mystery.”
Latin proverb
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“Learn to obey before you command.”—Solon It is the part of a good
shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life
which are the real ones after all.”
Learned Hand
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“Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time
for more than hastily contrived answers.”
Learned Hand
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“There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it
literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of
those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have
dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they
would have done, they are by no means final.”
Learned Hand, jurist

“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no
constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it
needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.”
Lin Yutang

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang

“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lord Acton
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“Learn as much by writing as by reading.”
Lord Chesterfield

“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your
learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to
count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”
Lord Chesterfield

Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are
asked.”
Lord Chesterfield

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more
necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be
acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of
them.”
Lord Macaulay

“Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth
four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used
to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge
that, than his father Philip for giving him life.”
Loren Eiseley
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“The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can,
but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to
learn all that we hunger to know.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light,
and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal
clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
Martin Heidegger

“Teaching is more difficult that learning because what teaching calls
for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, let nothing else be
learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the
impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by “learning”
we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful
information.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as
fools.”
Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

“What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to
tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.”
Mildred & Victor Goertzel

“Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely
unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to
seeing him come late with his pet pigeon—and with the paintbrush
he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.”
Montaigne

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time,
when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it
time well spent.
Norman Mailer

“One thing I’ve learned in all these years is not to make love when
you really don’t feel it; there’s probably nothing worse you can do to
yourself than that.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say
disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into
relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy
become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your
friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready
enough to tell them.”
Omar Nelson Bradley

“We’ve learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but
not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die,
but seldom how to live.”
Pablo Picasso

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso

“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn
how to do it.”
Persian Proverb

“One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to
apply it.”
Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

“...I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation
by reorganizing: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the
illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and
demoralization.”
Plato

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor
yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if
they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater
misfortune.”
Plutarch
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their
errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
Pournelle.

You won’t learn much about capitalism at a university. How could
you? Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured
professor doesn’t have much to do with either.
Publilius Syrus

“It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.”
Publilius Syrus

“Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.”
R. C. Allen

“We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.”
Rabbinical Saying

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another
time.”
Rabbinical Saying

“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another
time.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No
man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is
Doomsday.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social
Aims: The Comic, 1876

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity,
no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good
wit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social
Aims: The Comic, 1876

“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity,
no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good
wit.”
Ricard

“It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.”
Richard Bach - Christopher Morley

“Learning is finding out what you already know”
Richard Bach - Christopher Morley

“Learning is finding out what you already know”
Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever

“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no
matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we
need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach
the places we’ve chosen to go.”
Ricther

“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from
the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real
character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our
breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”
Robert Benchley

“A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedence, loyalty, and the
importance of turning around three times before lying down.”
Robert Byrne

“Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense
and aggravation later in life.”
Robert Frost

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It
goes on.”
Robert Fulghum

“All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how
to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned—the biggest word of all—look.”
Russell Earnest

“When helping with this problem, please flame me good so that
others will learn from my brazen irresponsibility.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the
infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific
learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be
false.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the
infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific
learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be
false.”
Samuel Johnson

“What we hope ever to do with ease we must learn first to do with
diligence.”
Saturday Night Live meets Friday the 13th

“And kids... learn something from Susie and Eddie. If you think
there’s a maniacal psycho-geek in the basement: 1) Don’t give him a
chance to hit you on the head with an axe! 2) Flee the premises...
even if you’re in your underwear. 3) Warn the neighbors and call the
police. But whatever else you do... DON’T GO DOWN IN THE DAMN
BASEMENT!”
Smart

“Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways,
reform thine own.”
Stanislaw J. Lec

“You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.”
Stephen Leacock

“Newspapermen learn to call a murderer ‘an alleged murderer’ and
the King of England ‘the alleged King of England’ to avoid libel suits.”
Steven Wright

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and
went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter
in Spanish.
Steven Wright

When I was eight, I played Little League. I was on first; I stole third;
I went straight across. Earlier that week, I learned that the shortest
distance between two points was a direct line. I took advantage of
that knowledge.
Strung, Curtis and Perry, Whitewater

“You must learn to run your kayak by a sort of ju-jitsu. You must
learn to tell what the river will do to you, and given those
parameters see how you can live with it. You must absorb its force
and convert it to your users as best you can. Even with the quickness
and agility of a kayak, you are not faster than the river, nor stronger,
and you can beat it only by understanding it.”
T.H. Huxley

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about
something.”
Tao te Ching

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds
daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from
relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing,
yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not
meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.—Lao-Tzu
The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII

The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but
the name of its mother has not come down to us. Two of the
science’s most illustrious expounders were Buffon and Oliver
Goldsmith, from both of whom we learn (_L’Histoire generale des
animaux_ and A History of Animated Nature) that the domestic cow
sheds its horn every two years.
Theodore Parker

“The books that help you most are those which make you think that
most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a
great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought,
deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
Theodore Parker

“The books that help you most are those which make you think that
most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a
great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought,
deep freigthed with truth and beauty.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be
done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably
the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John
Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790

“Health is worth more than learning.”
Unknown

“There are two types of people—those who come into a room and
say, “Well, here I am!” and those who come in and say, “Ah, there
you are.”
Unknown

“What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and
use things instead of using people and loving things.”
Unknown

“He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.”
W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman

“For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty
people who don’t want to learn—much.”
W. Edwards Deming

“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.”
W. Somerset Maugham

“When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the
elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed
no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked
because they would take too long.”
Walter Lippman

“A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle
of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the
process by which men educate their responses and learn to control
their environment.”
Werner von Braun

“I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest
caution.”
Wernher von Braun

“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest
caution.”
Will Rogers

“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why
don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody
from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one
did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on
earth.”
William Arthur Ward

“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less
from wise guys.”
William Carlos Williams

“By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn
his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the
language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his
environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have
new currency.”