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Language is the dress of thought.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

Leadership is often the afterthought of educational change.

Leadership is the cigarette that's smoked once the change has been consummated.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Learning is not so much an additive process, with new learning simply piling up on top of existing knowledge, as it is an active, dynamic process in which the connections are constantly changing and the structure reformatted.

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. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

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

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

Learning is a process where knowledge is presented to us, then shaped through understanding, discussion and reflection.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

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.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.