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Learning Quotes by Aristotle
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those…
- All men by nature desire knowledge.
- What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
- Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason…
- To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
- Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing…
- Education begins at the level of the learner.
- The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.
- Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
- The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
- Teachers, who educate children, deserve more honour than parents, who merely gave them birth; for the latter provided mere life, while the former ensure a…
- All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.
- Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
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- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus