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Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. -UnknownNiels Bohr approached every new question from a starting point of total ignorance. -UnknownLibraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. -Sidney SheldonThe endeavor to understand is the first and only essence of virtue. -SpinozaDo you know the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him and in that I am his pupil. -EmersonThe world is a book of instruction and he who will not profit by the lessons before him must be unfaithful to himself and his fellow citizens. -Noah WebsterNever express yourself more clearly than you think. -Neils BohrNo man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. -Charles SteinmetzThe education of a man is never completed until he dies. -Robert E. LeeThe more input you have, the more intelligent your output can be. -Pat & Pete LuboffWhat we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courtingnew impressions. -Walter PaterAlways ask questions. Albert Einstein once said that children ask challenging probing questions about why things are the way they are, but when they become adults, they stop asking questions. "I never stopped asking the questions I asked asa child," he said, "and that has made all the difference. So ask questions and

always, always ask questions you don't know the answers to." -Dr. Sean GreshA good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. -Edgar Watson Howe

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education. -AntisthenesThey know enough who know how to learn. -Henry AdamsAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keepslearning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. -Henry FordMan arrives as a novice at each age of his life. -Sebastien ChamfortThe more questions you ask, the better off you are. -UnknownReading and talking to others will open many doors for you. Don't be afraid to ask questions and ask until your questions are answered. -UnknownWhy smash your head against the same wall someone else has already encountered and successfully averted? -Ralph R. RobertsFacts are empty without being linked to context and concepts. -Bruce Perry, M.D

.What we become depends on what we read after all manners of professors have donetheir best for us. The true university of today is a collection of books. -Tho

mas CarlyleWhen we are young we learn much because we are universally ignorant. We observeeverything because everything is new. -Samuel JohnsonEvery man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him. -Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is not good for all your wishes to be fulfilled: through sickness you recognize the value of health, through evil the value of good, through hunger satisfaction, through exertion, the value of rest. -HeraclitusThe whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking . .. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead;

his eyes are closed. -Albert EinsteinI would walk twenty miles to listen to my worst enemy if I could learn something. -LeibnitzThe feeling of "Aha, that's it," which accompanies the clothing of a situation with meaning, is emotionally very satisfying and is the major charm of scientificresearch, of artistic creation, and of the solution of crossword puzzles. It iswhy the intellectual life is fun. -Huson Hoagland

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning. -The Bible, Proverbs 1:5.Learning is a name superior to beauty; learning is better than hidden treasure.Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country; learning is strength

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inexhaustible. A man in this world without learning is as a beast in the field.-The Hitopadesa

A man of learning is never bored. -Jean Paul RichterYou learn to play the flute by playing the flute. -AristotleLearning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, theknowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying allthe various editions of them. -Lord Chesterfield.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative orreceptive. -Albert Einstein

A variety of interests in life will help you grow mentally. -Ellen Michaud andRussell WildBe eager for learning, even if it comes from the snout of a hog. -Arab proverbLearn to unlearn. -Benjamin DisraeliI pray you, school yourself. -William ShakespeareWhen house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. -Old English RhymeHe who is learned but does not fear God is like a woman without manners. -Hebrew proverbLearning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. -Roger AshamI am still learning. -MichelangeloWhen a great learned man, who is long in making, dieth, much learning dieth withhim.

--Edward Coke

A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:There shallow droughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again. -Alexander PopeCelebrate learning! Keep a monthly log of what you learn each day. -Kevin EikenberryReading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -Joseph AddisonI learned to think that everything has a lesson and a suggestion. -Helen KellerAnyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable. -Harvey UllmanIf a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. -PlatoWear you learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it outand strike it; merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. -Lord Chesterfield