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Learning Quotes by David Hume
- 'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true…
- Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
- There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and…
- The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be…
- The sweetest and most inoffensive path of life leads through the avenues of science and learning; and whoever can either remove any obstruction in this…
- Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that…
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
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- Sometimes I push too far, and say the worst possible things... But why would I want to be hurt again? trust is… — Unknown Author
- 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