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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Leon Trotsky
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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.
Isaac Asimov
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We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
Dora Russell
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There are so many disciplines in being a parent besides the obvious ones like getting up in the night and putting up with the noise in the day. And almost the hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain, to show them we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
Warren Bennis
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To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
Eliza Haywood
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
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Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
Ellsworth Huntington
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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham
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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
John Gray
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"Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
Lloyd Alexander
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Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph
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Lovely weather so far. I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
Thomas Szasz
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Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
Herbert A. Simon
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Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
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Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits
of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
Thomas Nashe
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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
Kwame Nkrumah
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What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison
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Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.
Thomas Szasz
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I said…how, and why, young children, were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
Roger Ascham
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
André Breton
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