"All men by nature desire knowledge."
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"What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history."
"We learn not in the school, but in life."
"Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn."
"Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn."
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
"I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it."
"I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
"There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way."
"When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn."
"He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning."
"If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them."
"Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing."
"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
"Age doesn't matter. An open mind does."
". . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm."
"The final mystery is oneself."
"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
"A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women."