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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
All learning has an emotional base.
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.
All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Be quick to learn and wise to know.
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.
I grow old learning something new every day.
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.
If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
Income seldom exceeds personal development.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Learning is a livelihood.
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.
More can be learned from what works than from what fails.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.