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Learning Quotes
"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."
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"I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic."
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"Improve yourself. You can become what you admire most in life. By admiring the quality of excellence in other people, and practicing that same quality, you too can become exceptional. Get going now and push yourself to create the reality."
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"Your past is where you learned the lesson. Now is when you get to apply it."
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"I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it."
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"In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth."
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"For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table."
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"Developing your voice takes... time and practice."
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"He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal."
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"Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it."
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"Close behind us were our friends: Tjaden, a skinny locksmith of our own age, the biggest eater of the company. He sits down to eat as thin as a grasshopper and gets up as big as a bug in the family way; Haie Westhus, of the same age, a peat-digger, who can easily hold a ration-loaf in his hand and say: Guess what I've got in my fist; then Detering, a peasant, who thinks of nothing but his farm-yard and his wife; and finally Stanislaus Katczinsky, the leader of our group, shrewd, cunning, and hard-bitten, forty years of age, with a face of the soil, blue eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food, and soft jobs."
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"By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false."
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"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations."
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"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."
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"She draws back, yet refuses to lose skin contact. Golden light flickers across his face. He is the night, the stars. His soul shines so brightly, she could pour it into a jar, and it'd be as bright as the sun."
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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
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"Fas est ab hoste doceri.One should learn even from one's enemies."
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"I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want."
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"I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school."
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"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
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"If being in a relationship never causes you any grief, consider that maybe while you might physically be 'in' the relationship; mentally and emotionally you may have 'checked out' of the relationship. Relationships take an active presence in order to actually 'be' relationships. You can't 'care' without caring and caring isn't just for sunny days."
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"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
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"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
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"Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning."
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"Learn, or you'll be made to learn."
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"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard."
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"Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing."
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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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"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
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"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."
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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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"Nobody can experience everything, so you need to borrowthe experience of others."
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"The what to do can be taught, the how to do it is not as easy to pass on to someone who simply doesn't 'get it."
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