Quotes about learning

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“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”

“Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.”

“The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse.”

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.”

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”

“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”

“That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.”

“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped… We suffer, therefore we think.”

“What's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

“Faithful:Alanna sighed. "When I want to stop learning, I guess.”

“Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge”

“the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.”

“People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.”

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

“I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.”

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

“I've learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.”

“One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.”

“learning 's a gift, even when "pain", s your teacher!”

“If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star… you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”

“Every moment there are a million miracles happening around you: a flower blossoming, a bird tweeting, a bee humming, a raindrop falling, a snowflake wafting along the clear evening air. There is magic everywhere. If you learn how to live it, life is nothing short of a daily miracle.”

“If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Don't blame other people for your problems.”

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”

“Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.”

“I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.”

“Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.”

“You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.”

“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

“No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly," His Highness replied, "…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.”

“I learned to create a little more space between my thoughts and actions—actually between my feelings and reactions. This is extremely important; without it, life can be a real roller coaster ride.”

“Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.”

“I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”

“Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!”

“Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.”

“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”

“For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write”

“You have so much to learn from your enemies.”

“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”

“Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.”

“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…”

“You must learn to see what you are looking at.”

“Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.”

“If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

“For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”

“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

“I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.”

“Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.”

“One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”

“There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.”

“The importance of repetition until automaticity cannot be overstated. Repetition is the key to learning.”

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

“I've learned…. That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.”

“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

“If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.”

“The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.”

“I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.”

“The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.”

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.”

“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.”

“I never considered disobeying an order or even a request from Daddy. I loved and admired him, and one of my preeminent goals in life was to earn his approbation. I learned to expect his criticisms, always constructive, but his accolades were rare. My”

“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary… to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

“Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.”

“I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.”

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”

“Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.”

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”

“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

“Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.”

“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person…. Reading is bliss.”

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”

“YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.”

“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”

“In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim”

“If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.”

“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”

“Fas est ab hoste doceri.
One should learn even from one's enemies.”

“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later!”

“I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.”

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.”

“Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.”

“I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.”

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”

“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

“My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope?”

“Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.”

“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”

“But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!”