““Huh,” Sepak thought, marveling how much one could learn by just sitting still and observing. It wasn’t a skill one learned in the frenetic pace of modern society.”

— David Brin , book Earth

Part IX (pp. 501-502)
Earth (1990)

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novelist, short story writer 1950

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)

“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 62)

“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

“Just when I thought I was learning how to live, 'twas then I realized I was learning how to die.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length, and thundering sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.”

Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village

Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 211.

“One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.”

Charles Fort (1874–1932) American writer

Ch. 6 http://www.resologist.net/talent06.htm
Wild Talents (1932)

“The essence of traditional leadership is learned by osmosis. The next generation learns from what their elders and the current generation does. This was appropriate in a society where the pace of change was gradual.”

Joni Madraiwiwi (1957–2016) Fijian politician

Address to the Pacific Regional Workshop on Leadership Development, Lami, Fiji, 9 July 2005.

“Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11

“One mistake and you're gone. You just don't make that mistake. With time one's skill increases and one learns hunting tricks. With greater knowledge the dangers diminish. It is wonderful to be free, alone down there.”

Harold Holt (1908–1967) Australian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Australia

interview with journalist Nigel Muir in 1967, talking about the dangers of spearfishing
As prime minister
Source: The Life and Death of Harold Holt, p. 273.

“No one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study.”

Leon Trotsky book Terrorism and Communism

Source: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 7, p. 101

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