Quotes about learning

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“I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn”

“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again.”

“Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge”

“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”

“Anything we need to know, we can learn it from a book. Reading, careful study, a little practice, and we’re throwing knives expertly, overhauling engines, speaking Esperanto like natives.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

“I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable.”

“[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)”

“If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life”

“Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.”

“You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.”

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”

“Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you've learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.”

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

“All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.”

“Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.”

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”

“I've learned that we're all entitled to have our secrets.”

“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”

“because I have learned the hard way how deadly these beauties can be.”

“To be free is to learn, to test yourself constantly, to gamble. It is not safe. I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks, and”

“I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.”

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”

“You need to learn patience, you grasshopper”

“Life is about coming to terms with the mistakes made. Learning to live with them even when they cut soul deep.”

“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”

“Feelings are your guide. Trust your feelings and learn to express them, and do not blame anyone for how you feel. Be yourself, observe yourself. Look to understand any crisis you have been in or will be in.”

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.”

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.”

“I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.”

“You don't know how to live until you learn how to die.”

“God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.”

“Learning the truth has become my life's love.”

“I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.”

“We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.”

“Live to learn and you will really learn to live.”

“Leadership is what you need to learn next”

“I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.”

“The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.”

“I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness--and that's the fear of it.”

“It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.”

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

“I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.”

“I’m merely talking about learning to be less bothered by the actions of people.”

“… even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

“If you are going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.”

“You learn something new everyday."
"What are you learning?" Sophos asked.
"To keep my mouth shut, I hope.”

“I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses.”

“What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.”

“Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory)”

“Life is short, and wisdom long to learn.”

“If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.”

“I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are…”

“The lesson of history is that no one learns.”

“I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”

“For years I have had no mirror; I have learned to make do. The eyes of another can be a mirror more effective than water. If you will look at me, I can see my reflection in yours”

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.”

“You know, Uri, there’s something seriously wrong with me. (Acheron)
And you’re just now figuring this out? Damn, you’re the poster child for slow learning. (Urian)”

“Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.”

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

“If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.”

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

“Most people believe me when I lie. I've learned how to say the words just right. I have a trusting kind of face. But the boy in front of me was a trained operative, so Zach knew better. And besides, Zach new me.”

“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

“The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”

“Reading is the basics for all learning.”

“And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”

“The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of man.”

“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

“I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.”

“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.”

“Marry me. You'll learn to love me, I promise.”

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”

“I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?”

“… when a man like Ethan finally learns to love, it's forever.

~ Fiona MacCarrick ~”

“Let God have you, and let God love you - and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before.”

“But fate, as Merlin always taught us, is inexorable. Life is a jest of the Gods, Merlin liked to claim, and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh, he once told me, or else you'll just weep yourself to death.”

“It's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.”

“Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.”

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

“People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?”

“Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.”

“One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.”

“If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes.”

“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”