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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be read more
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
It is always in season for old men to learn.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn read more
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
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In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.
