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“You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.” Haruki Murakami, “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” - 2007

“And so he learned to read. From then on his progress was rapid.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.” Stephen King, “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft” - 2000

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.” Plato, “The Republic”

“We grow up in isolation. Only slowly do we teach ourselves the Cosmos.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“There is only one way to learn . . . It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.” Plato, “The Republic”

“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.” Mao Zedong, “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung” - 1964

“Willing emancipateth: for willing is creating: so do I teach. And only for creating shall ye learn!” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“They give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.” John Dewey, “Democracy and Education” - 1916

“The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstructions in this way, or open up any new prospect, ought so far to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.” David Hume, “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” - 1748

“A bruise is a lesson . . . and each lesson makes us better.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“I wouldn’t miss Mrs. Flowers, because she had given me her secret word which would help me all my life: books.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“I had really only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and self-discipline.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.” Henry Kissinger, “White House Years” - 1979

“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Love is fragile . . . but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love words, the tendernesses learned, are treasured up for the next lover.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Tales of the Jazz Age” - 1922

“Much learning does not teach understanding, otherwise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, Xenophanes and Hecataeus.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“Why didn't you tell me there was danger in men-folk? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o' learning in that way, and you did not help me!” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may properly be charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“LEARNING, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1906

“Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.” Rudyard Kipling, “The Jungle Book” - 1894

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato, “The Republic”

“the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands.” Francis Bacon, “The Advancement of Learning” - 1605

“Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities. Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

“You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.” Dr. Seuss, “Oh, The Places You'll Go!” - 1990

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them” Aristotle, “Nicomachean Ethics” - c. 334 BC - 330 BC

“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.” Stephen King, “11/22/63” - 2011

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched...” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“A great nation is like a great man: When he makes a mistake, he realizes it. Having realized it, he admits it. Having admitted it, he corrects it. He considers those who point out his faults as his most benevolent teachers. He thinks of his enemy...” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” - 1854

“That'll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then—always to have lessons to learn!” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“It’s hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can’t understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitably take their place; that every place has something good—and bad—to...” Nicholas Sparks, “The Lucky One” - 2008

“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.” Thomas Carlyle, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History” - 1841

“For it assumed that the aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education—or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.” John Dewey, “Democracy and Education” - 1916

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius, “Analects”

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