Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Looking Glass
Quotes about learning page 21
“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
Dashiell Hammett book The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: Pieces of White Shell
“There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.”
- Chinese proverb”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer
“Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Dreamfever
“Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
“A man learns with age, if he is lucky.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: When Demons Walk
“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced”
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989) American historian and author
“It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
Claude Bernard (1813–1878) French physiologist
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist
“What I learned
The well-documented difference
Between alone and lonely
The comfort of knowing”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“You can't retire to weakness -- you've got to learn to control strength.”
Wallace Stegner book Angle of Repose
Source: Angle of Repose
“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Robert J. Sawyer book Calculating God
Source: Calculating God (2000), Chapter 14 (p. 137)
“A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.”
David Eddings book Pawn of Prophecy
Source: Pawn of Prophecy
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist
The Books in My Life (1952) Preface (2nd edition. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1969, p. 12)
“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
“part memory part distance remaining
mine in the ways that I learn to miss you”
W.S. Merwin The Shadow of Sirius
Source: The Shadow of Sirius
“I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.”
Pat Conroy book The Great Santini
Source: The Great Santini
Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer
Source: A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
“One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Richard Carlson (1961–2006) Author, psychotherapist and motivational speaker
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary
Source: My Utmost for His Highest: Traditional Updated Edition
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living”
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 15
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Stanza 3.
Source: Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800), Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey (1798), Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
Context: That time is past,
And all its aching joys are now no more,
And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this
Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts
Have followed; for such loss, I would believe,
Abundant recompence. For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,—both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Source: Quoted in Herbert Howarth, Notes on Some Figures behind T. S. Eliot (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964), p. 89
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
[By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway, White, William, 1967, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 364]
Source: By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
“The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.”
Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.”
Sylvia Brownrigg (1964) American writer
Source: Pages for You
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
"A Bouquet of Wild Flowers", article published in the Missouri Ruralist (20 July 1917)
Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian
A Note to the Reader
Source: The Historian (2005)
Context: As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.
“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
“The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.”
Roger Bacon (1220–1292) medieval philosopher and theologian
Source: The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon - Volume 1
