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01c. 1590 AD

Do you know what a man is? Are not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?

William Shakespeare / quote

02c. 1842 AD

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

03c. 1733 AD

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Earl Of Chesterfield / quote

04c. 1700 AD

He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense, knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Sir Richard Steele / quote

05In print by 1896 AD

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

06In print by 1896 AD

True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.

Webster (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

07In print by 1896 AD

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

Samuel Smiles (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

08In print by 1896 AD

He who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

Saadi (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

09In print by 1896 AD

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

Sir W. Temple (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

10In print by 1896 AD

We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped has no more brains than that one of old which the Hebrews worshiped. So beware of money and of money's worth as the supreme passion of the mind. Beware of the craving for enormous acquisition.

Bartol (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

11In print by 1896 AD

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

12In print by 1896 AD

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

Marie Ebner-Eschenbach (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13In print by 1896 AD

We may learn by practice such things upon earth as shall be of use to us in heaven. Piety, unostentatious piety, is never out of place.

Chapin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

14In print by 1896 AD

Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.

Fuller (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

15In print by 1896 AD

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Confucius (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

16c. 1838 AD

Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell.

Thomas Carlyle / quote

17In print by 1893 AD

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

18c. 1855 AD

Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold / quote

19In print by 1893 AD

Every youth, from the king's son downwards, should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

20c. 1842 AD

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

21c. 1593 AD

For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

Francis Bacon / quote

22c. 1806 AD

Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most.

Lord Byron / quote

23In print by 1893 AD

Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest.

Ruskin (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

24c. 1777 AD

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart.

Robert Burns / quote