learn, learning; know, knowledge

From one, learn all.

“From one sample, judge or know all the rest.” -Vergil from his Aeneid. This maxim applies to situations in which the import of a single observation is universally applicable. Such a careless application is considered a trap for faulty generalizaions. See et sic de similibus for similarities.

The knowledge of approaches that are likely to work or of properties that are likely to be true (but not guaranteed).

1. To have information firmly in the mind or committed to memory: "These students know the names of all the U.S. presidents."
2. To believe firmly in the truth or having certainty of something: "I know I did the right thing in this situation."
3. To be, or to become, aware of something: "I finally know that these exercises really help me."
4. To have a thorough understanding of something through experience or study.
5. To be acquainted, associated, or familiar with someone or something.
6. To be able to perceive the differences, or distinctions, between things or people.
7. To recognize someone, or something, by a distinguishing characteristic or attribute.
8. Archaic, for example in the King James' version of the Bible: to engage in sexual intercourse with someone or to "know" someone sexually.

1. Acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
2. Acquaintance or familiarity gained by sight, experience, or report.
3. The fact or state of knowing; the perception of fact or truth; clear and certain mental apprehension.
4. Awareness, as of a fact or circumstance.
5. The body of truths or facts accumulated in the course of time.
6. Familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through experience or study.
7. The sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned.

1. Thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience.
2. Possessing or showing a great deal of knowledge, awareness, or intelligence; perceptive and well-informed.

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1. To acquire, or to gain, knowledge of a subject or skill through education or experience.
2. To ascertain information, or techniques, by inquiry, study, or investigation.
3. To receive instruction concerning a subject; to fix in the mind.
4. To acquire understanding of, or a skill; such as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.
5. To communicate knowledge to; to teach.

"To learn" formerly had the sense of "to teach", in accordance with the analogy of the French and other languages, and hence we find it with this sense in Shakespeare, Spenser, and other older writers. This usage has now passed away. To learn is to receive instruction, and to teach is to give instruction. He who is taught learns, not he who teaches.

6. To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.
7. To gain knowledge by rote; that is, to memorize by repetition without necessarily exercising one's understanding.
8. Etymology: from Old English lernen, leornen; "to get knowledge, to be cultivated"; from Anglo-Saxon leornian; from the root of Anglo-Saxon lran, "to teach".

There is a distinction between learn and teach

Old English leornian, the ancestor of our current learn, meant "to learn" or "to study", never "to teach"; however, during the Middle English period, the word came to be used in the last sense as well.

Shakespeare wrote, "A thousand more mischances than this one have learn'd me how to brook this patiently" in his Two Gentlemen of Verona. It was with the prescriptivism of the eighteenth century that this use of the word came to be frowned upon.

Samuel Johnson, in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), could not, with the example of such respectable authors as Spenser and Shakespeare before him, call this usage "wrong"; instead he wrote, "This sense is now obsolete." Since that time, however, grammarians have not hesitated to brand it "illiterate"; so, it is now considered unacceptable English to say, "No one ever learned me how to talk right."

1. Gaining knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of anything through experience or study.
2. Fixing in the mind or memory; memorizing.
3. Acquiring experience of, an ability, or a skill in some subject or field of knowledge; becoming aware, becoming informed about, finding out.

The more we know, the more we know that we don't know: knowledge quotes.

1. A reference to a knowledge that is only known to an individual and which is hard to share with someone else; therefore, it is the opposite of explicit knowledge.
2. Knowledge that enters into the production of behaviors and/or the constitution of mental states but is not ordinarily accessible to consciousness.