| Much learning does not teach understanding. -- Heraclitus |
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HeraclitusEra:
-535 |
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| learning is its own exceeding great reward. -- William Hazlitt |
| Author:
Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. -- Horace |
| Author:
HoraceEra:
-65 |
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| Ignorant of their ignorance, yet wise In their own esteem, these deluded men, Proud of their vain learning, go round and round Like the blind led by the blind. Far beyond Their eyes, hypnotized by the world of sense, Opens the way to immortality. -- Upanishads |
| Author:
UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down. -- John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Author:
Whittier, John GreenleafEra:
1807 |
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| Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli |
| Author:
Disraeli, BenjaminEra:
1804 |
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| If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. -- Confucius |
| Author:
ConfuciusEra:
-551 |
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| He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -- Joseph Joubert |
| Author:
Joubert, JosephEra:
1754 |
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| There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. -- Henry Ward Beecher |
| Author:
Beecher, Henry WardEra:
1813 |
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| Each day is the scholar of yesterday. -- Publilius Syrus |
| Author:
Syrus, PubliliusEra:
-42 |
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| Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. -- Jonathan Swift |
| Author:
Swift, JonathanEra:
1667 |
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