“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

— Louis Sullivan

“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”

— Confucius

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.”

— Thomas Fuller

“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”

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