Meaning of “I would at times feel that learning to…”

On Liberty, Chapter 2; Mill argues for open discussion because opposing views expose weaknesses and sharpen understanding.

Essay “On Books and Reading,” in a public-domain English collection of Schopenhauer’s essays.

Narrative, Chapter VII; the sentence follows his reading of political dialogue and speeches defending emancipation and human rights.

The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), first-edition scholar passage, Wikisource scan leaf 28. “And pause awhile from Learning to be wise” turns from the ambitious student’s pursuit of knowledge toward Johnson’s satirical warning that learning does not by itself remove grief, danger or error. This is eighteenth-century moral-satirical poetry after Juvenal, not a modern educational rule.

Areopagitica; this is the opening clause of Milton’s longer description of a good book.

Narrative, Chapter VI; Douglass recalls hearing Hugh Auld argue that literacy would make him unfit for slavery.