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01c. 1706 AD

Learning puffeth men up; words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift / quote

02c. 1844 AD

Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour and to wait.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

03c. 1790 AD

Let woman learn betimes to serve according to her destination, for only by serving will she at last learn to rule, and attain the influence that belongs to her in the household.

Goethe / quote

04c. 1593 AD

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Francis Bacon / quote

05c. 1842 AD

Men learn behaviour, as they take diseases, one of another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

06c. 1593 AD

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclinations; their discourses and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions.

Francis Bacon / quote

07c. 83 AD

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete.

Plutarch / quote

08c. 1842 AD

No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

09Undated

No one can teach you anything worth learning but through manual labour; the very bread of life can only be got out of the chaff of it by rubbing it in your hands.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

10Undated

Nobody can live by teaching any more than by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

11c. 1850 AD

Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn it, were more / Than a walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

12c. 1810 AD

O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach the hundredth part / Of what from thee I learn.

William Wordsworth / quote

13c. 1790 AD

Only by joy and sorrow does a man know anything about himself and his destiny, learn what he ought to seek and what to shun.

Goethe / quote

14c. 1790 AD

Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

Goethe / quote

15c. 1838 AD

Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

16c. 1425 AD

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by reading.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

17c. 1684 AD

The birds without barn or storehouse are fed: / From them let us learn to trust for our bread.

Isaac Newton / quote

18c. 1855 AD

The first lesson of literature, no less than of life, is the learning how to burn one's own smoke.

James Russell Lowell / quote

19c. 1838 AD

The great school for learning is the brain itself of the learner.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

20c. 1790 AD

The man to whom the universe does not reveal directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others—that man will scarcely learn it out of books; which generally do little more than give our errors names.

Goethe / quote

21Undated

The man who does not learn to live while he is getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before.

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

22c. 1790 AD

The most important thing is to learn to rule one's self.

Goethe / quote

23Undated

The practice of faith and obedience to some of our fellow-creatures is the alphabet by which we learn the higher obedience to heaven; and it is not only needful to the prosperity of all noble united action, but essential to the happiness of all noble living spirits.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

24c. 1810 AD

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do.

Duke Of Wellington / quote