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01c. 1842 AD

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

02c. 1733 AD

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.

Earl Of Chesterfield / quote

03c. 1700 AD

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Sir Richard Steele / quote

04Undated

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

05Undated

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.

Webster (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

06Undated

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Samuel Smiles (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

07Undated

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

Saadi (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

08Undated

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Sir W. Temple (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

09Undated

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Bartol (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

10Undated

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

11Undated

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

12Undated

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Chapin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13Undated

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.

Fuller (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

14Undated

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Confucius (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

15c. 1838 AD

Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

16Undated

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

17c. 1855 AD

Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold / quote

18Undated

Every youth, from the king's son downwards, should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19c. 1842 AD

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

20c. 1593 AD

For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

Francis Bacon / quote

21c. 1806 AD

Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most.

Lord Byron / quote

22Undated

Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

23c. 1777 AD

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart.

Robert Burns / quote

24Undated

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote