“By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXXIX
Following the Equator (1897)
“A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.”
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
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“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
Michel De Montaigne
(1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Source: The Complete Essays
Socialism (1922), Epilogue (1947)
Dawud Wharnsby
(1972) Canadian musician
"Education and The Working Man"
Blue Walls and The Big Sky (1995)
Context: Eating education is like eating Christmas pudding: Too much can make your stomach sore, too much can spoil your whole Christmas. Learning from a man who learned all he learned from another, can lead you to a safe place, but destroy your sense of wonder. Trapped inside a book, locked inside a lecture, when do you find the time to love and spend your days in forests? And when ideals are fleeting — tell me then who do you turn to? They prove to you that God is dead, but to them you’re just a number.
“A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.”
André Maurois
(1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Thinking
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
(1633–1695) English politician
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 11
Marvin Minsky
(1927–2016) American cognitive scientist
Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
Context: Of what use is musical knowledge? Here is one idea. Each child spends endless days in curious ways; we call this play. A child stacks and packs all kinds of blocks and boxes, lines them up, and knocks them down. … Clearly, the child is learning about space!... how on earth does one learn about time? Can one time fit inside another? Can two of them go side by side? In music, we find out!
“In every age and clime we see
Two of a trade can never agree.”
John Gay
(1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Fable XXI, "The Rat-catcher and Cats". Comparable to: "Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and poor man has a grudge against poor man, and poet against poet", Hesiod, Works and Days, 24; "Le potier au potier porte envie" (translated: "The potter envies the potter"), Bohn, Handbook of Proverbs; also in Arthur Murphy, The Apprentice, act iii
Fables (1727)