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01In print by 1893 AD

Science is for those who learn, poetry for those who know.

J. Roux (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

02In print by 1893 AD

Have more than thou showest; / Speak less than thou knowest; / Lend less than thou owest; / Learn more than thou trowest; / Set less than thou throwest.

Unresolved attribution · printed work: King Lear · Unknown culture / quote

03In print by 1893 AD

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself; / And, where we are, our learning likewise is.

Unresolved attribution · printed work: Love's L. Lost · Unknown culture / quote

04In print by 1893 AD

Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken; / And he wants wit that wants resolvèd will, / To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.

Unresolved attribution · printed work: Two Gent. of Verona · Unknown culture / quote

05Undated

Could it be believed that a child should be forced to learn the rudiments of a language which he is never to use, and neglect the writing a good hand, and casting accounts?

Locke (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

06Undated

The chief art of learning is to attempt but little at a time.

Locke (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

07c. 1790 AD

Learn above all, how to manage women: their thousand Ahs! and Ohs! so thousand-fold, can be cured, but how,—I cannot tell.

Goethe / quote

08c. 1710 AD

Learning by study must be won, 'Twas ne'er entailed from sire to son.

John Gay / quote

09c. 1803 AD

O never rudely will I blame his faith In the might of stars and angels!... ... For the stricken heart of Love This visible nature, and this common world, Is all too narrow: yea, a deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn, For fable is Love’s world, his home, his birth-place: Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat’ry depths; all these have vanished. They live no longer in the faith of reason! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down: and even at this day ’Tis Jupiter who brings whate’er is great, And Venus who brings everything that’s fair.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

10In print by 1921 AD

“They were learning to draw,” the Dormouse went on, “and they drew all manner of things—everything that begins with an M—” “Why with an M?” said Alice. “Why not?” said the March Hare. Alice was silent.

Lewis Carroll (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

11c. 1841 AD

When you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but vether it’s worth while goin’ through so much to learn so little, as the charity-boy said wen he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o’ taste. I rayther think it isn’t.

Charles Dickens / quote

12In print by 1921 AD

Who is the most diligent bishop and prelate in all England, that passeth all the rest in doing his office? It is the Devil. He is the most diligent preacher of all other, he is never out of his diocese, ye shall never find him unoccupied, ye shall never find him out of the way, call for him when you will; he is ever at home, the diligentest preacher in all the Realm; ye shall never find him idle, I warrant you.... He is no lordly loiterer, but a busy ploughman, so that among all the pack of them the Devil shall go for my money! Therefore, ye prelates, learn of the Devil to be diligent in doing of your office. If you will not learn of God nor good men: for shame learn of the Devil.

Bishop Latimer (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

13In print by 1921 AD

A little child He took for sign To them that sought the way Divine. And once a flower sufficed to show The whole of that we need to know. Now here we lie, the child and I, And watch the clouds go floating by, Just telling stories turn by turn.... Lord, which is teacher, which doth learn?

H. D. Lowry (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

14c. 1833 AD

Learn to win a lady’s faith Nobly as the thing is high, Bravely as for life and death, With a loyal gravity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning / quote

15In print by 1921 AD

Is the yellow bird dead? Lay your dear little head Close, close to my heart, and weep, precious one, there, While your beautiful hair On my bosom lies light, like a sun-lighted cloud; No, you need not keep still, You may sob as you will; There is some little comfort in crying aloud. But the days they must come, When your grief will be dumb; Grown women like me must take care how they cry. You will learn by and by ’Tis a womanly art to hide pain out of sight, To look round with a smile, Though your heart aches the while And to keep back your tears till you’ve blown out the light.

Marian Douglas (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

16In print by 1921 AD

I think sometimes how good it were had I some one by me to listen when I am tempted to read a passage aloud. Yes, but is there any mortal in the whole world upon whom I could invariably depend for sympathetic understanding—nay, who would even generally be at one with me in my appreciation? Such harmony of intelligences is the rarest thing. All through life we long for it ... and, after all, we learn that the vision is illusory. To every man is it decreed: Thou shalt live alone.

George Gissing (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

17In print by 1893 AD

Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is content who to obey has learn'd.

Sir E. Brydges (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

18In print by 1893 AD

Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.

Bishop Butler (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

19In print by 1893 AD

Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet and from it learn the all.

Margaret Fuller (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

20In print by 1893 AD

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

Talfourd (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

21In print by 1893 AD

The world of thought must remain apart from the world of action, for if they once coincided the problem of life would be solved, and the hope which we call heaven would be realised on earth. And therefore men "Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song."

Lord Houghton (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

22In print by 1893 AD

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to say of his studies in intellectual philosophy, that he had become all the better acquainted with the country through having had the good luck sometimes to lose his way.

Smiles (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

23In print by 1893 AD

What we want to believe, what it suits our convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to believe, one need not go to sea to learn what slender logic will incline us to believe.

Burroughs (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote

24In print by 1893 AD

Men of sense often learn from their enemies.

Aristophanes (identity unresolved) · Unknown culture / quote