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Learning Quotes by Gilbert Highet
- Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils…
- The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best…
- He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group…
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- 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