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I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived.

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

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

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.

Language is the dress of thought.

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.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

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.

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 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.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.