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Learning Quotes
"A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks."
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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
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"I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was."
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"Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life."
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"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."
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"Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life."
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"Much can be gained be contrasting a theory with its alternatives, even ones that look too extreme to be true. You can really understand something when you know what it is not."
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"The only things you learn are the things you tame."
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"Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia."
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"There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
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"Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
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"Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book."
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"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
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"Through self-development, you can continuously fortify yourself for the next level of increase."
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"Proper researching is arguably half the quest. Not knowing the right direction to travel in, makes the journey a lot harder than it is."
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"Analyze and correct your past mistakes before they paralyze your future! An undiscovered error will always crave for repetition. Kick out errors, enjoy a bright future!"
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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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"Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing."
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."
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"I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why."
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"Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation."
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"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."
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"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."
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"Failure is the school of greatness."
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"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
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"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."
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"There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you."
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"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
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