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01c. 1838 AD

Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

02Undated

He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.

Hare (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

03c. 1593 AD

He that questioneth much will learn much.

Francis Bacon / quote

04Undated

He who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Joubert (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

05c. 1790 AD

How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee.

Goethe / quote

06c. 1425 AD

If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

07Undated

If you want learning, you must work for it.

J. G. Holland (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

08c. 1842 AD

If you would learn to write, it is the street you must learn it in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

09c. 1790 AD

In learning anything, its first principles alone should be taught by constraint.

Goethe / quote

10c. 1763 AD

It is by imitation, more than by precept, that we learn anything.

Edmund Burke / quote

11c. 1751 AD

It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youths learn a knowledge of the world.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

12Undated

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13c. 1695 AD

Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes, or to envy the happiness of another.

Joseph Addison / quote

14c. 1777 AD

Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto.

Robert Burns / quote

15Undated

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

Lavater (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

16c. 83 AD

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch / quote

17Undated

Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Spurgeon (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

18Undated

Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.

Fuller (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19c. 1593 AD

Learning hath its infancy, when it is almost childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then its strength of years, when solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and exhaust.

Francis Bacon / quote

20c. 1562 AD

Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it is wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

Michael De Montaigne / quote

21c. 1562 AD

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye.

Michael De Montaigne / quote

22Undated

Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

23c. 1740 AD

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar, of science.

Laurence Sterne / quote

24c. 1765 AD

Learning itself, received into a mind / By nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves but to lead philosophers astray, / Where children would with ease discern the way.

William Cowper / quote