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He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze...

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It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you'r...

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it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe pe...

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into a...

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...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding....

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Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!...

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In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't re...

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First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just pla...

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When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...

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Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no...

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We spend our lives learning many things, only to discover (again and again) that most of what we've ...

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Chuck KlostermanBut What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better...

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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Study the past if you would define the future.

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At f...

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.

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ConfuciusThe Analects

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, ‘Who will say that...

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ConfuciusThe Analects

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The goo...

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ConfuciusThe Analects of Confucius: Bilingual Edition

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enou...

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We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our lear...

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Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know....

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I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the ...

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ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTI...

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Always we learn things and then we forget them.

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Dave EggersYou Shall Know Our Velocity!

...Politics is an activity in which you recognize the simultaneous existence of different groups, in...

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As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the pe...

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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support J...

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The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, s...

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From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...

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If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matte...

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Dean KoontzOdd Apocalypse

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to di...

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So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I h...

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Dean KoontzOdd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sin

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in ...

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What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected...

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Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political ...

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I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable m...

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For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves and what...

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It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and disc...

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Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher...

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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

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Douglas AdamsMostly Harmless

Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of...

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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'...

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Dr. SeussI Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possesse...

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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what...

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Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are f...

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He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea - for the cool interior of the well-built hous...

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Euripides "questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" w...

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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result...

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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...

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Elizabeth GilbertCommitted: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can...

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At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished...

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Elizabeth GilbertThe Signature of All Things

At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished ...

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Elizabeth GilbertThe Signature of All Things

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really har...

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Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundame...

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The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager ...

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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and liste...

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In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipp...

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In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped...

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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...

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Eric HofferReflections on the Human Condition

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid ...

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Ernest HemingwayAmerican Lit for Idiots - a one act play

if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten...

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In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in t...

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If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego ...

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Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a su...

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Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. ...

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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herdi...

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It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to ...

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I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and lear...

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If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happ...

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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation thin...

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Francis BaconThe Advancement Of Learning

Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildi...

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Francis BaconThe Advancement Of Learning

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation thin...

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Francis BaconThe Advancement Of Learning

Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildi...

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Francis BaconThe Advancement Of Learning

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation thin...

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Francis Bacon (artist)The Advancement Of Learning

Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildi...

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Francis Bacon (artist)The Advancement Of Learning

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation thin...

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Francis Bacon (artist)The Advancement Of Learning

Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildi...

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Francis Bacon (artist)The Advancement Of Learning

Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

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