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| Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know. | L. Carte | |
| Language is the inventory of human experience. | L. W. Lockhart | |
| No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer |
| By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. | Latin Proverb | Sayings of Latin Origin |
| There can be no literary equivalent to truth. | Laura Riding | 1901-1991, American Poet |
| The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. | Laurence J. Peter | |
| One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. | Laurence Sterne | 1713-1768, British Author |
| A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. | Lawrence Durrell | 1912-1990, British Author |
| Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. | Leo Buscaglia | American Expert on Love, Lecturer, Author |
| Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. | Leon Trotsky | 1879-1940, Russian Revolutionary |
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| Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. | Les Brown | 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer |
| It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. | Leslie Jeanne Sahler | |
| All literature is political. | LeVar Burton | American Actor |
| Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America. | Lillian Hellman | 1905-1984, American Playwright |
| When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. | Lillian Smith | 1897-1966, American Author |
| Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. | Lily Tomlin | 1939-, American Comedienne |
| Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. | Lionel Trilling | 1905-1975, American Critic |
| Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
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| People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| With just enough of learning to misquote. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
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| Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. | Lord Chesterfield | 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author |
| In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. | Lord Edward Lytton | 1803-1873, British Writer, Statesman |
| It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. | Lord Henry P. Brougham | 1778-1868, Scottish Whig Politician |
| It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. | Lou Holtz | 1937-, American Football Coach |
| Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated. | Lou Holtz | 1937-, American Football Coach |
| Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears. | Louis Macneice | 1907-1963, British Poet |
| The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished. | Louis-Ferdinand Celine | 1894-1961, French Author |
| The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. | Louise Bogan | 1897-1970, American Poet, Critic |
| Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. | Louise Bogan | 1897-1970, American Poet, Critic |
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| I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day. | Lucius C. Falkland | |
| Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher |
| Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher |
| If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher |
| Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher |
| There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher |
| Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! | Luigi Pirandello | 1867-1936, Italian Author, Playwright |
| The level of the development of a country is determined, in considerable part, by the level of development of its people's intelligence. | Luis Albert Machado | |
| Patience is passion tamed. | Lyman Abbott | 1835-1922, American Congregational Clergyman and Editor |
| You aren't learning anything when you're talking. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA |
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