Quotes about learning

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“We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

“Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.”

“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“I know nothing of god or the devil. I have never learned a secret nor found a cure that would damn or save my soul.”

“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time…
… why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”

“People are more than one thing. Warlocks, no less. I would not even hesitate to say that Malcolm once did much good, before he did evil. It is one of the great lessons of growing up, learning that people can do both.”

“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”

“One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed.”

“How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.”

“I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.”

“Many… have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.”

“Any fool can spend money. But to earn it and save it and defer gratification—then you learn to value it differently.”

“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.”

“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”

“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.”

“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”

“For a human being, nothing comes naturally,” said Grumman. “We have to learn everything we do.”

“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

“You can swim, too." he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?"
"We have a very big bathtub.”

“Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new.”

“They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.”

“Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.”

“For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”

“What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.”

“It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.”

“I wanted to learn more of love- that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.”

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

“Some parents let their young kids win at games, but mine never did.

I don't think it was because they were particularly competitive, they just wanted to teach me a valuable lesson.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.”

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”

“Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don't practice studying things you don't like, then you'll have a very hard time in life.”

“Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.”

“The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”

“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”

“Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.”

“What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?”

“Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.”

“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”

“Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.”

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

“Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was
a certain sense of order there;
something worth learning
in that narrow diary of my mind”

“I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life.

- Such as?

- Procrastination and rationalization.”

“I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.”

“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. … You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.”

“We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.”

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

“I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.
--Terri Mitchell”

“Learn to recognize omens, and follow them”

“How much to learn if we could spend one hour, spend twenty minutes, with the us we will become! How much could we say to the us we were.”

“I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.”

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.”

“Fear dims when you learn things.”

“People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid.”

“I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you.”

“I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.
- Troy”

“Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.”

“I had learned this lesson so many times
before. It was the great inner truth that
didn't require the support of logic. Every
time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished.
I wondered how much of me would be left
after tomorrow.”

“Weapons may be carried by creatures who are evil, dishonest, violent or lazy. The true warrior is good, gentle and honest. His bravery comes from within himself; he learns to conquer his own fears and misdeeds.

—Matthias”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”

“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.”

“Time is an unkind teacher, delivering lessons that we learn far too late for them to be useful. Years after I could have benefited from them, the insights come to me.”

“Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.”

“Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.”

“have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”

“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.”

“What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.”

“And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.”

“I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.”

“I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?”

“It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.”

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”

“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught,”

“Mark: When did you learn to drive?
Courtney: About three seconds ago.”

“It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”

“Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.
Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?”

“Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to a blunter, lower ache—the kind that one could almost—but never quite—ignore.”

“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”

“Ever, if I’ve learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it’s that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.”

“The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.”

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

“You don’t learn unless you question.”

“Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”

“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?”

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands."
"Then learn to live without your hands."
"No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger […]”

“I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end."
-Bobby Pendragon”

“Part of life is learning what to be ashamed of and what to be proud of.”

“We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.”

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

“But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.”

“The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.”

“The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.”