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Learning Quotes by Epictetus
- To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and…
- What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
- It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
- We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers,…
- It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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