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Learning Quotes by Plato
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they…
- Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings…
- All learning is in the learner, not the teacher.
- The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
- We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
- The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog…
- The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward…
- Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with…
- [Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a…
- I would fain grow old learning many things.
- There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the…
- Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much…
- Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be…
More Learning Quotes
- 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