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Learning

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. – B. B. King

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. – Audre Lorde

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. – Lyndon B. Johnson

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. – Lillian Gish

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function. – Brian Eno

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. – Josh Billings

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. – Andre Breton

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? – Bill Watterson

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. – Lord Chesterfield

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. – Vivien Leigh

Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm. – Jerry Saltz

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. – Aeschylus

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. – Albert Pike

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. – Luciano Pavarotti

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. – Umberto Eco

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant. – Ritchie Blackmore