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Learning

2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Antonin Scalia

"Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character."

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Lewis Grizzard
Lewis Grizzard Author, Humorist

"Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?""

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Barack Obama Politician
Learning

"Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new."

School Education Learning
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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian
Learning

"In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it."

Order Understanding Learning
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George Washington Carver Agricultural Scientist, Inventor
Learning

"Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition."

Race Education Learning
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Paulo Freire Educator, Author
Learning

"Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world."

Creativity Learning Educational
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Leonardo da Vinci Artist, Scientist, Inventor
Learning

"Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else."

Creative Intelligent Learning
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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator
Learning

"Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead."

Mind Waiting Learning
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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Learning

"Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know."

Real Learning Things In Life
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