“I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly”
Peter Cook (1937–1995) British architect
On developing social skills , The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
2006–2013
“I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly”
Peter Cook (1937–1995) British architect
Mary Martin (1913–1990) American actress
As quoted in Mary Martin : Broadway Legend (2008) by Ronald L. Davis. p. 6
“I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Source: Diving Into the Wreck
Aaron McGruder (1974) American cartoonist
Source: The Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read the Newspaper
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 175
“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Neil Postman (1931–2003) American writer and academic
Language Education in a Knowledge Context (1980)
Context: The question, "How well does one read?" is a bad question... essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is "How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?" No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.
Sanju Samson (1994) Indian cricketer
Source: Samson after hitting a century on 2017 Indian Premier League about his unsuccessful domestic season. Sanju Samson says bad times taught him a lot https://m.economictimes.com/news/sports/sanju-samson-says-bad-times-taught-him-a-lot/amp_articleshow/58144832.cms