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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. T. S. Eliot
Louis L'Amour quote: "The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance."
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance. Louis L'Amour
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done. Booker T. Washington
The air is so crisp it gives me a brief, delusive sense of health and youth. those I don't have but I have learned not to scorn the substitutes: quiet, plenty of time, and a job to spend it on. Wallace Stegner
Henry David Thoreau quote: "With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much..."
With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole. Henry David Thoreau
Annie Dillard quote: "why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over?"
why did I have to keep learning this same thing over and over? Annie Dillard
Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong? John Irving
. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning. Louis L'Amour
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. Josephine Baker
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing. Anne Lamott
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters! Anne Frank
This town must learn, even against its will, how much it coststo scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged. So shall I vindicate my virgin motherand reveal myself to mortals as a God, the son of God. Euripides
At that time, he was satisfying a sensual curiosity by experiencing the pleasures of people who live for love. He had believed he could stop there, that he would not be obliged to learn their sorrows; how small a thing her charm was for him now compared with the astounding terror that extended out from it like a murky halo, the immense anguish of not knowing at every moment what she had been doing, of not possessing her everywhere and always! Marcel Proust
William Glasser quote: "When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from..."
When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style. William Glasser
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the... Ray Bradbury

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