“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
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“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”
“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?”
“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”
“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”
“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”
“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”
“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.”
“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.”
“A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.”
“English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.”
“Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.”
“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”
“I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.”
“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.”
“My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.”
“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”
“But, if you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own - we leave them alone to crawl, walk, talk, and gain control over their bodies. It happens without much help from parents.”
“I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.”
“I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.”
“Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.”
“Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!”
“Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.”
“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?”