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Learning Quotes by Saint Augustine
- I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
- A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
- Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
- If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with…
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