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One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play,… — Lord Chesterfield
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. — William Hazlitt
In the no-nonsense school of adversity, which we did not choose for ourselves, we are learning how to operate a labor union. — Cesar Chavez
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to… — Elbert Hubbard
[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so… — Martin Luther
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what… — Jonathan Swift
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live… — Noam Chomsky
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in… — John Milton
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. — Edgar Wallace
If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and… — Confucius
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by not having known… — Soren Kierkegaard
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment. — Willem Dafoe
What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts,… — Oprah Winfrey
We're still getting better as a team. We're still learning how to play basketball as a team and how to win tough games. — Carmelo Anthony
I'm still learning. Hopefully I can keep getting better, and not stop where I am now. — Tim Duncan
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it… — Yao Ming

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