 | "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
- Abigail Adams
, 1780. |
| "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
- Confucius
, The Confucian Analects. |
| "That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
- Doris Lessing
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| "Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient."
- Eugene S. Wilson
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| "Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future."
- Euripides
, Phrixus. |
| "The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
- George Santayana
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| "Much learning does not teach understanding."
- Heraclitus
, On the Universe. |
| "Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
- Lord Chesterfield
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| "What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
- Martina Horner
, President of Radcliffe College. |
| "Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can !' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt
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