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Learning Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An…
- People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves…
- White people...have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which…
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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