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By studying the masters and not their pupils.
Author: Niels H. Abel
Source: in reply to a question about how he got his expertise
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Agamemnon
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The green retreats
Of Academus.
Author: Mark Akenside
Source: Pleasures of the Imagination (canto I, l. 591)
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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.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays Civil and Moral--Of Vicissitude of Things
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an
exact man.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Studies
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And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice,
Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. XXVI, v. 24)
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Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them
that seek learning.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XXXIII, v. 17)
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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.
Author: Sir William Browne
Source: Epigram--In reply to Dr. Trapp
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Out of too much learning become mad.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. 4, memb. 1, subsec. 2)
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And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by Algebra.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, 125)
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In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 119)
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The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 40)
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And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 308)
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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: adapted from "Acad. Quaest.", 4, 41
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When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
Author: Edward Cocker
Source: Urania
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Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned.
Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into
practice intelligently.
Author: Edward Cocker
Source: Urania
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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning
is perilous.
Author: Confucius
Source: Analects (bk. II, ch. XV)
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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the
beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Author: Confucius
Source: Analects (bk. XVII, ch. VIII)
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Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. VI, Winter Walk at Noon, l. 85)
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To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
Author: Aelius Donatus
Source: quoted by St. Jerome, his pupil
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Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
Author: Michael Drayton
Source: Of Poets and Poesie
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It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: De Ratione Studii
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There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.
Author: Euclid
Source: to Ptolemy I, see Phoclus' "Commentaries on Euclid's Elements", bk. II, ch. IV
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Learning by study must be won;
'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Pack Horse and Carrier (l. 41)
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Author: Frederick Douglass
Source: None
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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Author: Abigail Adams
Source: None
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A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.
Author: Hindu Proverb
Source: None
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Author: Horace
Source: None
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A wise teacher makes learning a joy.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Author: Newton D. Baker
Source: None
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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Author: Latin Proverb
Source: None
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Author: William A. Ward
Source: None
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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
Author: L. Carte
Source: None
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Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
Author: Al Neuharth
Source: None
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Author: Douglas Adams
Source: None
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Author: Anthony J. D'Angelo
Source: None
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He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: None
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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Author: W. Edwards Deming
Source: None
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He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Author: Joseph Joubert
Source: None
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Author: Bob Edwards
Source: None
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Source: None
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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Author: Robert Heinlein
Source: None
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Author: Chinese Proverb
Source: None
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Author: Douglas Adams
Source: None
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I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Author: Lillian Smith
Source: None
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