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Learning Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.
- Nature is a self-made machine, more perfectly automated than any automated machine. To create something in the image of nature is to create a machine,…
- Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards…
- The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human…
- Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
- Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he…
- In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- 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