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“If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.”
Dean Acheson
“I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.”
Dean Acheson
“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.”
Arthur Hailey
“If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.”
Bernard Meltzer
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
Horace
“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
Plato
“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
Plato
“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
Plato
“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”
Plato
“I would fain grow old learning many things.”
Plato
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Euripides
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Euripides
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
Euripides
“Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.”
Euripides
“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.”
Salvador Dali
“People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.”
Moliere
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
Aldous Huxley
“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
Aldous Huxley
“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”
Aldous Huxley
“There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
Aldous Huxley
“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
Aldous Huxley
“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
Aldous Huxley
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Always desire to learn something useful.”
Sophocles
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
“The learned man knows that he is ignorant.”
Victor Hugo
“You can learn from anyone even your enemy.”
Ovid
“Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.”
Jean de La Fontaine