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Learning Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
- Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating…
- I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than…
- Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.
- False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
- Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without…
- I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- Tradition is but a meteor, which, if it once falls, cannot be rekindled. Memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. But written learning is…
- Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an…
- The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety…
- Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,…
- The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
- To mean understandings, it is sufficient honour to be numbered amongst the lowest labourers of learning; but different abilities must find different tasks. To hew…
- There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work…
- Language is the dress of thought.
More Learning Quotes
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- 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