Quotes about learning

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“It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.”

“You learn to move on without the people you love.”

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”

“woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”

“The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

“So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.”

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own.”

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”

“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”

“I'd wanted a real kiss, something to remember, but i'd long ago learned not to be picky with farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a goodbye at all.”

“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”

“But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.”

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”

“I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.”

“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”

“In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.”

“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”

“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”

“Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”

“I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.”

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

“If everything is done for me… how will I ever learn?”

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”

“I learned not to fear infinity,
The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,
The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,
The wheel turning away from itself,
The sprawl of the wave,
The on-coming water.”

“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”

“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to
ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn”

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.”

“She had wondered, when he’d looked into her eyes and said that he’d had to learn to make do without mirrors in the Wild Hunt, whose eyes he’d been looking into for all those years. Who’d been his mirror.
Now she knew.”

“Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.”

“Ask and you shall receive" is the rule, but you must learn how to ask and how to receive”

“I learned to love the feel of good words.”

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.”

“And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love”

“One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die… and accepts his sentence undismayed.”

“He'd learned his lesson a long time ago: Even in the midst of heartbreak, you could still find yourself laughing.”

“Failing isn't bad when you learn what not to do.”

“Close, close all night
the lovers keep.
They turn together
in their sleep,

Close as two pages
in a book
that read each other
in the dark.

Each knows all
the other knows,
learned by heart
from head to toes.”

“If we want to keep the blessings of life coming to us, we must learn to be grateful for whatever is given.”

“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”

“I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.”

“In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.”

“Everything I need to know… I learned in kindergarten.”

“Maybe the hardest lesson Han had learned was that nobody is purely bad or good. Everybody seemed to be a mixture of both.”

“You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.”

“We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.”

“Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.”

“in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!”

“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”

“Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.”

“Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”

“Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.”

“The wheel of fortune […] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.”

“Those prancing little pants-wetters come here to learn the colorful and gentlemanly art of fencing, with its many sportingand its proscriptions againstengagements. You on the other hand, you are going to learn how to.”

“You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

“I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.”

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“It is the responsibility of every adult… to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.”

“If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.”

“I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning… rather than one great dull answer to all our questions”

“Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”

“Learn to use your emotions to think, not think with your emotions.”

“The ability to read becomes devalued when what one has learned to read adds nothing of importance to one's life.”

“Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.”

“Cabin Fifteen does that to everyone," Annabeth warned. "If you ask me, this place is even more dangerous than the Ares cabin. At least with Ares, you can learn where the land mines are."
"Land mines?”

“Do they always flirt with biblical quotes?" Asil asked Tad.

In long-suffering tones, Tad said, "They can flirt with the periodic table or a restaurant menu. We've learned to live with it. Get a room you guys.”

“It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.”

“You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.”

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”

“As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.”

“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.”

“Very impressive. Where did you learn that?"
Made it up just now.”

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

“The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard… Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.”

“Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.”