If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
- Topic: Learning
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Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
I kept always two books in my pocket: one to read, one to write in.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
