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Quotes about Learning — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes about learning, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Learning is never wasted

   — Proverb

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2. 4

   Learning has no age limit

   — Proverb

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3. 8

   No shame in asking what you don't know

   — Traditional

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4. 16

   Learn till the day you die

   — Proverb

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5. 32

   Learning without thought is labor lost

   — Confucius

   Original · Classical Chinese學而不思則罔

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6. 64

   A day without reading breeds thorns

   — An Jung-geun

   Original · Classical Chinese一日不讀書，口中生荊棘

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7. 128

   To learn is to add day by day

   — Laozi

   Original · Classical Chinese為學日益

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8. 256

   The roots of learning are bitter, its fruit sweet

   — Aristotle

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9. 512

   Trusting all books is worse than none

   — Mencius

   Original · Classical Chinese盡信《書》，則不如無《書》

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10. 1024

    Know what you know and don't

    — Confucius

    Original · Classical Chinese知之為知之，不知為不知

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    Love learning and forget old age

    — Confucius

    Original · Classical Chinese好學而忘老

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    While we teach, we learn

    — Seneca

    Original · LatinDocendo discimus.

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14. 8192

    Man can only become man by education

    — Kant

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15. 16384

    Blue dye comes from the indigo plant, yet is bluer than indigo

    — Xunzi

    Original · Classical Chinese青出於藍而勝於藍

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16. 32768

    Learning never exhausts the mind

    — Leonardo da Vinci

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17. 65536

    My life has a limit, but knowledge has none

    — Zhuangzi

    Original · Classical Chinese吾生也有涯，而知也無涯

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18. 131072

    Only a boy before an ocean of truth

    — Newton

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