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Learning Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead…
- You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
- The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
- Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
- A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool…
- My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates…
- What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the…
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