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Learning Quotes
"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
"Life corrects the errors of logic."
"Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning."
"We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life."
"Learn, or you'll be made to learn."
"One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless."
"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
"A writer must expect other people to criticize their work and open-mindedly consider all worthwhile suggestions. Martial arts master Bruce Lee advised anyone attempting to master a difficult enterprise to learn from other people but also liberally experiment and judiciously draw from our own well of intelligence and talent. 'Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."
"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain."
"I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience."
"A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes."
"You can kill a book quicker by your silence than by a bad review."
"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
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