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Learning Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the…
- It's just plain learning something that you didn't know. There is a real aesthetic experience in being dumbfounded.
- As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still…
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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