Seneca Learning Quotes & Sayings

A poem begins as a lump in the throat? Gamache asked Ruth. The elderly woman held his eyes — Louise Penny

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach. — Seneca The Younger

If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives. — John Amos Comenius

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught. — Seneca The Younger

To want to know more than is sufficient is a form of intemperance. Apart from which this kind of obsession with the liberal arts turns people into pedantic, irritating, tactless, self-satisfied bores, not learning what they need simply because they spend their time learning things they will never need. The scholar Didymus wrote four thousand works: I should feel sorry him if he had merely read so many useless works. — Seneca.

And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were excellent in all sorts of science, whom he had always attending his person, to the end, that when amongst his friends any occasion fell out of speaking of any subject whatsoever, they might supply his place, and be ready to prompt him, one with a sentence of Seneca, another with a verse of Homer, and so forth, every one according to his talent; and he fancied this knowledge to be his own, because it was in the heads of those who lived upon his bounty; as they, also, do whose learning consists in having great libraries. — Michel De Montaigne

Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. — Seneca.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree. — Seneca The Younger

School shootings were invented by blacks ... and stolen by the white man. — Chris Rock

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know. — Seneca The Younger

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and
what will perhaps make you wonder more
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. — Seneca.

The Professor made no reply to this. Lillian had been fiercely jealous of Tom Outland. As he left the house, he was reflecting that people who are intensely in love when they marry, and who go on being in love, always meet with something which suddenly or gradually makes a difference. Sometimes it is the children, or the grubbiness of being poor, sometimes a second infatuation. In their own case it had been, curiously enough, his pupil, Tom Outland. St. — Willa Cather

A person teaching and a person learning,' he said, 'should have the same end in view: the improvement of the latter. — Seneca.

I imagine she came out of the birth canal holding a cupcake and a spatula. — Katja Millay

Part of my joy in learning is that it puts me in a position to teach; nothing, however outstanding and however helpful, will ever give me any pleasure if the knowledge is to be for my benefit alone. — Seneca.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca The Younger

How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change. — Seneca.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. — Seneca.

But learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die. So many of the finest men have put aside all — Seneca.

Would I fortify myself against the fear of death, it must be at the expense of Seneca: would I extract consolation for myself or my friend, I must borrow it from Cicero. I might have found it in myself, had I been trained to make use of my own reason. I do not like this relative and mendicant understanding; for though we could become learned by other men's learning, a man can never be wise but by his own wisdom. — Michel De Montaigne

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples. — Seneca The Younger

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher — Seneca The Younger

The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective. — Seneca The Elder

I have frequently stated that I regard chess as an art form, where creativity prevails over other factors. — Vasily Smyslov

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. — Seneca The Younger

It is the evil mind that gets first hold on all of us. Learning virtue means unlearning vice. We — Seneca.

The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred. — Jonathan Franzen

The voters of Brookhaven Town made a clear choice to turn away from the corruption and problems of the past, .. I will end corruption in Town Hall once and for all. I've been fighting for this all my life. — Bill Vaughan

There is no man to whom a good mind comes before an evil one. It is the evil mind that gets first hold on all of us. Learning virtue means unlearning vice. We should therefore proceed to the task of freeing ourselves from faults with all the more courage because, when once committed to us, the good is an everlasting possession; virtue is not unlearned. — Seneca.

An expression of kindness is a memory forever. — Debasish Mridha