#learning

They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they’d had the same experience of looking up from their books ...

"Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If ...

I would contend at all costs both in word and deed as far as I could that we will be better men, braver and less idle, if

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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Upon this first rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with

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The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

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Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too

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Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom

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Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgement, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions — as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for

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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

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Whereas other pursuits yield their fruit only to those who have practiced them to perfection, in the love and practice of

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There must be a seed of every good thing in the character of men, otherwise no one can bring it out.

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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.

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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena;

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We know nothing of childhood; and with our mistaken notions the further we advance the further we go astray. The wisest

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Pupils who have stored their “minds” with all kinds of material which they have never put to intellectual uses are sure to

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We must free ourselves from the prison of public education and politics.

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Make your friends your teachers and blend the usefulness of learning with the pleasure of conversation.

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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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