Learning
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I learned one thing about eating jigsaw puzzles... An hour later, you're hungry again.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity - another man's I mean.
Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to.
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy.
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the mandate of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing the norm.
You're never too old to learn.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.
We can only learn to love by loving.
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