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By studying the masters and not their pupils. - Niels H. Abel, in reply to a question about how he got his expertise Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. - Abigail Adams They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Brooks Adams It is always in season for old men to learn. - Aeschylus, Agamemnon The green retreats Of Academus. - Mark Akenside, Pleasures of the Imagination (canto I, l. 591) The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil. - Antisthenes Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. - Aristotle To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. - Aristotle We cannot learn without pain. - Aristotle What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. - Aristotle Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. - Roger Ascham I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. - Richie Ashburn It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn. - Isaac Asimov It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. - Francis Bacon Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. - Francis Bacon, Essays Civil and Moral--Of Vicissitude of Things Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Francis Bacon, Essays--Of Studies Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. - Henry Ward Beecher The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. - Henry Ward Beecher Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person. - Warren Bennis And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. - Bible, Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 24) Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning. - Bible, Ecclesiasticus (Apocrypha) (ch. XXXIII, v. 17) If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. - Ashleigh Brilliant The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. - Sir William Browne (1), Epigram--In reply to Dr. Trapp Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Out of too much learning become mad. - Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. 4, memb. 1, subsec. 2) Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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