This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL
What would learning do without love? It would puff up. And love without learning? It would go away.
Most learning consists of extended plateau periods in which we solidify progress through repetitive activity, followed by little spurts of improvement... With repeated practice, we give up our restless search for happiness in the next moment and learn that by inhabiting each moment with full awareness, we experience a deepening sensory aliveness and richness.
Aliveness | Awareness | Experience | Improvement | Learning | Little | Practice | Progress | Search | Happiness | Learn |
Anyone 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 regardless of physical capacity.
William Jones, fully Sir William Jones of Nayland, aka Trinity Jones
We find in God all the excellences of light, truth, wisdom, greatness, goodness and life. Light gives joy and gladness; truth gives satisfaction; wisdom gives learning and instruction; greatness excites admiration; goodness produces love and gratitude; life gives immortality and insures enjoyment.
Admiration | Enjoyment | God | Gratitude | Greatness | Immortality | Joy | Learning | Life | Life | Light | Love | Truth | Wisdom | God |
Simeon ben Lakish, or Shimon ben Lakish or Reish Lakish
When two merchants exchange goods, each one surrenders part of his stock; but when two students exchange instruction, each one retains his own learning and acquires also the other's. Is there a bigger bargain than this?
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That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.
Experience | Knowledge | Learning | Observation | Precept | Reading |
The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom. All men are frail, but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
Evidence | Knowledge | Learning | Men | Opinion | Wisdom | Think |
There is much more learning than knowing in the world.
To dismiss anyone as valueless, especially the old ones, is to throw away the wisdom of a life; it robs some of learning and others of purpose - and runs contrary to the underlying oneness of the natural order, which tells us that every part of nature has a reason, a purpose for being.
Learning | Life | Life | Nature | Oneness | Order | Purpose | Purpose | Reason | Wisdom | Old |
That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportionate eagerness and haste.
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, and where we are our learning likewise is.
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Ahad HaAm, pen name, born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg
Learning - learning - learning: that is the secret of Jewish survival.
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.
Discipline | Judgment | Learning | Philosophy | Virtue | Virtue |
I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning.
Doris Lessing, fully Doris May Lessing, born Doris May Tayler
In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam
I have no patience with the stupidity of the average teacher of grammar who wastes precious years in hammering rules into children's heads. For it is not by learning rules that we acquire the powers of speaking a language, but by daily intercourse with those accustomed to express themselves with exactness and refinement and by copious reading of the best authors.
Children | Language | Learning | Patience | Reading | Refinement | Stupidity | Teacher |