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Isaac Asimov

Richard Branson

Nicolaus Copernicus

Charles Darwin

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Leon Trotsky

Donald Trump

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

You [an aspiring writer] can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

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

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

Nicolaus Copernicus

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present.

We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thus we learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game — and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. … To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I can also tell you on the Internet in China, you can have access to a lot of postings that are quite critical about the government. It is exactly through reading these critical opinions on the Internet that we try to locate problems and further improve our work. I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress. I frequently browse the Internet to learn about a situation.

Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

Learn how to be a policeman, because that cannot be improvised. As regards being pope, you will see later. Anybody can be pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Letter to a young boy

Pope John XXIII

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?

Elizabeth Janeway

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something outside ourselves.

Ethel Percy Andrus