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01c. 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

02In print by 1893 AD

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures and directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers.

William Penn (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

03c. 1838 AD

The world is a thing that man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

04c. 1838 AD

There is nothing more perennial in us than habit and imitation. They are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

05In print by 1893 AD

They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you learn manners?" He answered, "From the unmannerly."

Saadi (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

06c. 1425 AD

Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.

Thomas À Kempis / quote

07c. 1745 AD

To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.

Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote

08c. 1838 AD

To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

09In print by 1893 AD

True taste is for ever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

10c. 1790 AD

Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose.

Goethe / quote

11c. 1838 AD

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

12c. 1790 AD

We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially.

Goethe / quote

13c. 1790 AD

We learn to know a thing best in the place where it is native.

Goethe / quote

14c. 1790 AD

We learn to know nothing but what we love; and the deeper we mean to penetrate into any matter with insight, the stronger and more vital must our love and passion be.

Goethe / quote

15c. 1790 AD

We must all receive and learn both from those who were before us and from those who are with us. Even the greatest genius would not go far if he tried to owe everything to his own internal self.

Goethe / quote

16c. 1790 AD

We never learn what people are by their coming to us; we must go to them if we wish to know what they are made of, and see how they conduct or misconduct their surroundings.

Goethe / quote

17c. 1790 AD

We properly learn from those books only which are above our criticism, which we cannot judge.

Goethe / quote

18In print by 1893 AD

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Bovee (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19c. 1751 AD

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

20c. 1790 AD

Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the good is lying near. / Fortune learn to seize alone, / For that Fortune's ever here.

Goethe / quote

21c. 1695 AD

Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.

Joseph Addison / quote

22c. 1751 AD

Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of men's.

Oliver Goldsmith / quote

23c. 1790 AD

Women should learn betimes to serve according to station, for by serving alone she at last attains to the mastery, to the due influence which she ought to possess in the household.

Goethe / quote

24c. 1838 AD

Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things.

Thomas Carlyle / quote