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Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde
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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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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -Confucius
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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butler
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Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

Thomas Henry Huxley
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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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When one teaches, two learn.

Robert A. Heinlein
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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus
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Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave. -Abu Muhammad
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I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Fred Allen
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When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. -Bill Moyers
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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. -W. Edwards Deming
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If you don't listen, you're never gonna learn.

Frank Iero
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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

John Lubbock
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Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. -Jim Carrey
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It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Alice Koller
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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell
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'Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high.' -Norwegian Proverb
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Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
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A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Frederick Douglass
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Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. -Henry Beston
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Mao Tse tung
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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Bill Vaughn
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There is no short-cut to art, one has to work hard, be open and flexible in your mind, keep the child alive inside you, and through a whole lifetime be ready to learn new things and  of course, be mentally prepared for a hard punch on your nose,  esp. -Bente Borsum
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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles
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Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Jeremy Collier
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Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. -Dogen
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