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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.

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I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

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We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

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The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

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