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Aristotle2 quotes
We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it. — Aristotle · 322 BCLearning is an ornament in prosperity, and a refuge in adversity. — AristotleEpictetus2 quotes
For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. — Epictetus · 108What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus · 108B.F. Skinner1 quote
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B.F. Skinner · 1964Benjamin Franklin1 quote
Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn In no other. — Benjamin Franklin · 1743Douglas Adams1 quote
A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.” — Douglas Adams · 2001Hippocrates1 quote
The life so short, the craft so long to learn. — Hippocrates · 410 BCHorace1 quote
And seek for truth in the groves of Academe. — Horace · 14 BCJohn F. Kennedy1 quote
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. — John F. Kennedy · 1963Joshua Reynolds1 quote
The mind is but a barren soil; is a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. — Joshua Reynolds · 1774Juvenal1 quote
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. — Juvenal · 100Lord Chesterfield1 quote
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield · 1746Louanne Johnson1 quote
The mind is like a muscle, okay, and if you want it to be really powerful, you got to work it out. Ok? Each new fact gives you another choice. Each new idea builds another muscle, okay, and it’s those muscles that are going to make you really strong. Those are your weapons and in this unsafe world, I want to arm you...Look, okay, if at the end of the term, you’re not faster, stronger, and smarter, you will have lost nothing. But if you are, you’ll be that much tougher to knock down. — Louanne Johnson · 1995Mark Twain1 quote
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more. — Mark Twain · 1897Menander1 quote
The man who has never been flogged has never been taught. — Menander · 291 BCPlotinus1 quote
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another. — Plotinus · 270Plutarch1 quote
The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting. — PlutarchSocrates1 quote
Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds-some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere... We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, the receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. — Socrates · 369 BCSolon1 quote
Old to grow, but ever learning. — Solon · 119Umberto Eco1 quote
Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do. — Umberto Eco · 1980Willa Cather1 quote
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather · 1915William Shakespeare1 quote
I am slow of study. — William Shakespeare · 1599