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Learning Quotes
"Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing."
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"I should never be able to fulfill what is,I understand, the first duty of a lecturer-to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever"."
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"But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
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"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
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"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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"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."
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"And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)"
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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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"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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"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."
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"Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life."
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"If I love a dose of (good) theology or philosophy, I probably also love discipline, improvement, wisdom, and challenges. If I hate it, I am probably too comfortable and proud to try to question myself."
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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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"I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop."
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"Your education can be the 'make or break' difference when a hiring manager reads your resume or invites you in for an interview. In our competitive world, today a Master's Degree has become the new differentiator that a Bachelor's Degree once was."
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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
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"A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!"
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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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"Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it."
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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 believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."
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"Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling."
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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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"You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort."
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"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
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"Failure is the school of greatness."
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"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest. For it is part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude."
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