The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.
- Edward Abbey
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
- Kareem Abduljabbar
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- Chinua Achebe
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
- Dean Acheson
A people fired... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
- Abigail Adams
Only through suffering do we learn
- Aeschylus
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
- Cecelia Ahern
We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.
- Anna Akhmatova
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.
- Paulo Coelho
if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
- Jodi Picoult
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
- Lloyd Alexander
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
- Laurie Anderson
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.
- Laurie Anderson
We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are
- Patricia Briggs
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
- Ethel Percy Andrus
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
- Hermann Hesse
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what and who we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.
- Kofi Annan
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Hannah Arendt
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle
[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)
- Karen Armstrong
We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.
- Joe Arpaio
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
- John Ashcroft
In a healthy relationship, you're allowed to get pissed and in my face. Fuck, I need you to do that so I know what buttons not to push, where I can't go and avoid those places. And I'll do the same for you. Its part of learning how to take care of each other. Its fightin but its a form of communication and it's also a form of trust. We have words, we come to terms, we learn about each other and we move on stronger.
- Kristen Ashley
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
- John Astin
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
- Margaret Atwood
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
- Steve Maraboli
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca
The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.
- Michael Baden
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us
- M Russell Ballard
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
- Robert Ballard
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
- Muriel Barbery
WE LEARN FROM OUR PAIN
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.
- Joan Bauer
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
- Joan Bauer
You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?"
"No."
"We learned to get mad.
- Joan Bauer
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
- Jean Paul
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.
- Martha Beck
We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
- Desmond Tutu
A person is a person through other persons.
None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
- Desmond Tutu
Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
- Rob Bell
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
- L M Montgomery
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
- John Steinbeck
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
- Ruth Benedict
No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and
learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
- Haruki Murakami
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
- Wendell Berry
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
- Wendell Berry
We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.
- Toba Beta
Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.
- Toba Beta
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
- Robert Kiyosaki
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
- James W Black
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
- Sissela Bok
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
- Tamora Pierce
We learned the value of research in World War II.
- Amar Bose
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
- Ray Bradbury
The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
- William Boyd
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.
- Brandon Boyd
So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?
- E R Braithwaite
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
- Madeleine L Engle
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.
- Madeleine L Engle
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
- Rita Mae Brown
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers
- Joyce Brothers
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
- Tom Brown Jr
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.
- Dan Brown
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
- Olympia Brown
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
- James L Buckley
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"
That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"
No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!
- Rick Riordan
We are all running toward something, girl. Life or death, and eventually we learn that all roads lead to death.
- Sarah Felix Burns
and because what we learn in the dark
remains all our lives,
a noise like the sea, displacing the day's
pale knowledge,
you'll come to yourself
in a glimmer of rainfall or frost,
the burnt smell of autumn,
a meeting of parallel lines,
and know you were someone else
for the longest time,
pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist,
lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.
- John Burnside
By seeking and blundering we learn.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
- Levar Burton
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.
- Jim Butcher
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
- Bernard Malamud
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
- Bernard Malamud
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
- Orson Scott Card
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
- Jacqueline Carey
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.
- Isobelle Carmody
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.
- Benjamin Franklin
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
- Steve Case
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.
- Edgar Cayce
Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
- Arlene J Chai
We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.
- Arlene J Chai
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.
- Oswald Chambers
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience.... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.
- Francis Chan
... there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes our actions and the consequences that follow both. There are only events how we cope with them and what we learn from the coping.
- Elizabeth George
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- Anton Chekhov
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
- Joan D Chittister
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.
- Noam Chomsky
Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
- George S Clason
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
- Terry Pratchett
We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection
- Robert A Heinlein
In learning we teach and in teaching we learn.
- Phil Collins
All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.
- Quentin Crisp
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.
- Jordan Dane
Only in books do we learn what's really going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'm not saying we shouldn't grieve. Just, why don't we put it in God's hands? she said. Why haven't we learned this, after all the evidence of all the dead? We're supposed to believe in God but then why don't we obey the laws of God's universe, which teach us how small we are and where we're all going to end up?
- Don Delillo
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
- Barbara Deming
We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.
- John Dewey
unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us
- Charles Dickens
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz
we learn best by placing our 'confidence in men and women whose examples invite us to love what they love'(Robert Wilken).
- Michael Dirda
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history
- Benjamin Disraeli
We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
- Dorothy Dix
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
- Christopher Dodd
Alexander, I don't know what's going to happen to me either. So what? So we find out together. That's what a relationship is. If it is not working, fix it. If life is hard we learn from each other. You don't run off to keep from inflicting yourself on someone else. If it gets too much for me, I'll say so, but you don't get to decide that for me.
- India Drummond
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
- Horace
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it that's how we learn.
- Rick Warren
The bible is foreign to me, but its concepts are not. My father always said that hatred is a waste and never an option. He learned this growing up in Ahwaz, Iran, in a Muslim household. I have tried my best to pass the same message to my children, born and raised in the United States. Ultimately, it doesn't matter where we learn that lesson. It's just important that we do.
- Firoozeh Dumas
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.
- Bob Marley
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie Von Ebnereschenbach
Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.
- David Eddings
God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.
- Tyler Edwards
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
- George Eliot
...the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love
- Karen Essex
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
- Richard Paul Evans
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.
- James E Faust
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
- Dave Foley
The "norm" for humanity is love.
Brutality is an aberration.
We are not sinners by nature.
We learn to be bad.
We are taught to stray from our good paths.
We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
- Jack D Forbes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- John Powell
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
- E O Wilson
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
- Matthew Fox
Secretly, I still get proud of the ways Rosie and I loved each other. We had no one else to learn from - none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success - so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.
- Tana French
We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.
- Tana French
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
- James Anthony Froude
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
- Stephen Leacock
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
- Ernst Toller
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
- Thomas Hardy
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- William E Gladstone
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
- Malcolm Gladwell
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
- Ellen Goodman
Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters - some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous.
- Richelle E Goodrich
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
- Remy De Gourmont
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
- Martha Graham
More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire.
- Mira Grant
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
- Thom Gunn
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
- Dorothy Hamill
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
- Herbie Hancock
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
- Nhat Hanh
You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
- Kathleen Hanna
The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It's our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves.
- S Kelley Harrell
We learn from tragedy. Slowly.
- Josephine Hart
As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves
- William Hartnell
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like "why does a good God let bad things happen to good people " such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say "God " we will do so with the prayer "My God my God why have you forsaken me?
- Stanley Hauerwas
I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.
- John Hawkes
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
We learn from hisotry what we do not learn from history
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
- Theodor Herzl
Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
- Patricia Hewitt
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
- Elias Hicks
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
- Lauryn Hill
...the beautiful thing--perhaps the thing I love most about the gospel-- is that everything we learn we can use and take with us and use it again. No bit of knowledge goes wasted. Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else. Did you know that? What a concept!
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
- Harri Holkeri
We learn to do something by doing it.
There is no other way.
John Holt
- John Holt
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
- Naveen Jain
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
- Elizabeth Janeway
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
- Leon Jaworski
If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
- John Jewel
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
- Steve Jobs
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
- Sue Johanson
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsthat the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.
- Maureen Johnson
Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.
- Thomas S Monson
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.
- Thomas S Monson
We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny.
- Thomas S Monson
When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count onhome and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.
- Thomas S Monson
We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.
- Virginia Johnson
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
- Joyce Meyer
Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.
- Joyce Meyer
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way
- Norton Juster
Hope and courage and risk dwell inside of us on an uncharted island and if we learn to look for it and tap into it, our possibilities are endless.
- Katie Kacvinsky
One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
- Paul Kantner
I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
- Marcy Kaptur
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
- Sam Keen
We learned three things together, that first day of Ethan's humanity: skin warms skin, silver eyes light darkness, and our heartbeats measured time together, so that we knew we were no longer alone.
- Vicki Keire
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
- Nancy Kerrigan
Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.
- Daniel Keyes
We learn to do by doing.
- Spencer W Kimball
In the Church, we can give expression to every ability, every righteous desire, every thoughtful impulse. Whether a volunteer, father, home teacher, bishop, or neighbor, whether a visiting teacher, mother, homemaker, or friendthere is ample opportunity to give our all. And as we give, we find that 'sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven!' (Hymns, no. 147) And in the end, we learn it was no sacrifice at all.
- Spencer W Kimball
When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?
- Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.
- Caroline Knapp
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
- Jack Kornfield
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
- Wayne Kramer
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
- Wayne Kramer
We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.
- Steve Lacy
It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.
- Stephen R Lawhead
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
- Jonah Lehrer
- Edward Abbey
I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
- Kareem Abduljabbar
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- Chinua Achebe
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
- Dean Acheson
A people fired... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.
- Abigail Adams
Only through suffering do we learn
- Aeschylus
We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.
- Cecelia Ahern
We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.
- Anna Akhmatova
The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
- Paulo Coelho
We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.
- Paulo Coelho
if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made. but then, caleb taught me long ago you can't build anything without some sort of foundation. maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.
- Jodi Picoult
My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
- Lloyd Alexander
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
- Laurie Anderson
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.
- Laurie Anderson
We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are
- Patricia Briggs
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
- Ethel Percy Andrus
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
- Hermann Hesse
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what and who we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.
- Kofi Annan
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Hannah Arendt
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle
[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)
- Karen Armstrong
We learn by our problems. We correct our deficiencies if there are any.
- Joe Arpaio
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
- John Ashcroft
In a healthy relationship, you're allowed to get pissed and in my face. Fuck, I need you to do that so I know what buttons not to push, where I can't go and avoid those places. And I'll do the same for you. Its part of learning how to take care of each other. Its fightin but its a form of communication and it's also a form of trust. We have words, we come to terms, we learn about each other and we move on stronger.
- Kristen Ashley
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.
- John Astin
We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?
- Margaret Atwood
The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
- Steve Maraboli
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca
The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.
- Michael Baden
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us
- M Russell Ballard
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.
- Robert Ballard
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
- Muriel Barbery
WE LEARN FROM OUR PAIN
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't want to be. It's why they're mistakes.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.
- Joan Bauer
And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.
- Joan Bauer
You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?"
"No."
"We learned to get mad.
- Joan Bauer
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
- Jean Paul
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.
- Martha Beck
We learn from history that we don't learn from history!
- Desmond Tutu
A person is a person through other persons.
None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.
- Desmond Tutu
Times change. God doesn't, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
- Rob Bell
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
- L M Montgomery
Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.
- John Steinbeck
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
- Ruth Benedict
No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and
learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
- Haruki Murakami
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
- Wendell Berry
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
- Wendell Berry
We should have known much more than our ancestors.
But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them.
- Toba Beta
Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.
- Toba Beta
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
- Robert Kiyosaki
We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.
- James W Black
We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
- Sissela Bok
Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?
- Tamora Pierce
We learned the value of research in World War II.
- Amar Bose
Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
- Ray Bradbury
The last thing we learn about ourselves is our effect.
- William Boyd
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.
- Brandon Boyd
So long as we learn it doesn't matter who teaches us, does it?
- E R Braithwaite
Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.
- Madeleine L Engle
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true that if you have the right insurance everything is going to be fine. That's not what it's really like. Terrible things happen. And those are the things we learn from.
- Madeleine L Engle
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
- Rita Mae Brown
Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers
- Joyce Brothers
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
- Tom Brown Jr
Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.
- Dan Brown
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
- Olympia Brown
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next.
- James L Buckley
We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Grover murmured, "Well, Percy, what have we learned today?"
That three-headed dogs prefer red rubber balls over sticks?"
No," Grover told me. "We've learned that your plans really, really bite!
- Rick Riordan
We are all running toward something, girl. Life or death, and eventually we learn that all roads lead to death.
- Sarah Felix Burns
and because what we learn in the dark
remains all our lives,
a noise like the sea, displacing the day's
pale knowledge,
you'll come to yourself
in a glimmer of rainfall or frost,
the burnt smell of autumn,
a meeting of parallel lines,
and know you were someone else
for the longest time,
pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist,
lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.
- John Burnside
By seeking and blundering we learn.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn.
- Levar Burton
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a part of our existence as human beings that its true impact upon us can be difficult to put into words. That power doesn't necessarily have anything to do with sex, either. From the time we are infants, we learn to associate the touch of a human hand with safety, with comfort, with love.
- Jim Butcher
We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
- Bernard Malamud
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
- Bernard Malamud
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
- Orson Scott Card
Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
- Jacqueline Carey
The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.
- Isobelle Carmody
Chess teaches foresight, by having to plan ahead; vigilance, by having to keep watch over the whole chess board; caution, by having to restrain ourselves from making hasty moves; and finally, we learn from chess the greatest maxim in life - that even when everything seems to be going badly for us we should not lose heart, but always hoping for a change for the better, steadfastly continue searching for the solutions to our problems.
- Benjamin Franklin
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
- Steve Case
Great numbers of children will be born who understand electronics and atomic power as well as other forms of energy. They will grow into scientists and engineers of a new age which has the power to destroy civilization unless we learn to live by spiritual laws.
- Edgar Cayce
Love and passion are well and good while they last, but in the end what mattes is whether you like the person you are with. Friendship and companionship matter more. They are the things that last. And if in the end we learn to be friends, I will be content.
- Arlene J Chai
We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.
- Arlene J Chai
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.
- Oswald Chambers
It is easy to use the phrase 'God's will for my life' as an excuse for inaction or even disobedience.... My hope is that instead of searching for 'God's will for my life' each of us would learn to seek hard after 'the Spirit's leading in my life today.' May we learn to pray for an open and willing heart, to surrender to the Spirit's leading with that friend, child, spouse, circumstance, or decision in our lives right now.
- Francis Chan
... there are no mistakes. There are only our wishes our actions and the consequences that follow both. There are only events how we cope with them and what we learn from the coping.
- Elizabeth George
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
- Anton Chekhov
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
- Joan D Chittister
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.
- Noam Chomsky
Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
- George S Clason
Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.
- Terry Pratchett
We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection
- Robert A Heinlein
In learning we teach and in teaching we learn.
- Phil Collins
All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.
- Quentin Crisp
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were. When we choose a goal and invest ourselves in it to the limits of concentration, whatever we do will be enjoyable. And once we have tasted this joy, we will redouble our efforts to taste it again. This is the way the self grows.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A journey takes time. And the lessons we learn best, they come from the journey, not the destination.
- Jordan Dane
Only in books do we learn what's really going on.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I'm not saying we shouldn't grieve. Just, why don't we put it in God's hands? she said. Why haven't we learned this, after all the evidence of all the dead? We're supposed to believe in God but then why don't we obey the laws of God's universe, which teach us how small we are and where we're all going to end up?
- Don Delillo
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
- Barbara Deming
We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.
- John Dewey
unless we learn to do our duty to those whom we employ, they will never learn to do their duty to us
- Charles Dickens
Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
- Delmore Schwartz
we learn best by placing our 'confidence in men and women whose examples invite us to love what they love'(Robert Wilken).
- Michael Dirda
What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history
- Benjamin Disraeli
We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
- Dorothy Dix
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
- Christopher Dodd
Alexander, I don't know what's going to happen to me either. So what? So we find out together. That's what a relationship is. If it is not working, fix it. If life is hard we learn from each other. You don't run off to keep from inflicting yourself on someone else. If it gets too much for me, I'll say so, but you don't get to decide that for me.
- India Drummond
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.
- Horace
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it that's how we learn.
- Rick Warren
The bible is foreign to me, but its concepts are not. My father always said that hatred is a waste and never an option. He learned this growing up in Ahwaz, Iran, in a Muslim household. I have tried my best to pass the same message to my children, born and raised in the United States. Ultimately, it doesn't matter where we learn that lesson. It's just important that we do.
- Firoozeh Dumas
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
- Ursula K Le Guin
The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.
- Bob Marley
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie Von Ebnereschenbach
Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening." He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. "Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.
- David Eddings
God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a relationship with Him. This means not only hearing but allowing our understanding of God to change the way we live. Like the wise builder who laid the foundation of his house on the rock, we learn to let our knowledge of God change us.
- Tyler Edwards
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
- George Eliot
...the world we learned as children to fear---the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love
- Karen Essex
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
- Richard Paul Evans
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. There seems to be a full measure of anguish, sorrow, and often heartbreak for everyone, including those who earnestly seek to do right and be faithful. Yet this is part of the purging to become acquainted with God.
- James E Faust
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
- Dave Foley
The "norm" for humanity is love.
Brutality is an aberration.
We are not sinners by nature.
We learn to be bad.
We are taught to stray from our good paths.
We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
- Jack D Forbes
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Malcolm Forbes
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
- Henry Ford
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- John Powell
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
- E O Wilson
If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
- Matthew Fox
Secretly, I still get proud of the ways Rosie and I loved each other. We had no one else to learn from - none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success - so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.
- Tana French
We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.
- Tana French
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
- James Anthony Froude
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
- Stephen Leacock
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves.
- Ernst Toller
We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
- Thomas Hardy
Failure is success if we learn from it.
- William E Gladstone
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
- Malcolm Gladwell
We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.
- Ellen Goodman
Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters - some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous.
- Richelle E Goodrich
We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
- Remy De Gourmont
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
- Martha Graham
More things we learned from the Rising: It's hard to gentrify a city that's on fire.
- Mira Grant
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.
- Thom Gunn
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.
- Dorothy Hamill
I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.
- Herbie Hancock
Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
- Nhat Hanh
You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
- Kathleen Hanna
The soul is infinite, made up of aspects that come and go all the time. It's our nature for parts of the soul to travel while we meditate or dream. Through this process we grow, we learn new thoughts, thus desires, and our consciousness evolves.
- S Kelley Harrell
We learn from tragedy. Slowly.
- Josephine Hart
As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves
- William Hartnell
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like "why does a good God let bad things happen to good people " such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say "God " we will do so with the prayer "My God my God why have you forsaken me?
- Stanley Hauerwas
I think we've all been misled, at moments in our lives, certainly in school situations, and things like that, with getting with the wrong group briefly, or falling in with someone who we learn the truth about and no longer want to really be with.
- John Hawkes
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
- Friedrich August Von Hayek
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
We learn from hisotry what we do not learn from history
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
- Theodor Herzl
Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.
- Patricia Hewitt
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
- Elias Hicks
From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
- Lauryn Hill
...the beautiful thing--perhaps the thing I love most about the gospel-- is that everything we learn we can use and take with us and use it again. No bit of knowledge goes wasted. Everything you are learning now is preparing you for something else. Did you know that? What a concept!
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
- Harri Holkeri
We learn to do something by doing it.
There is no other way.
John Holt
- John Holt
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
- Naveen Jain
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
- Elizabeth Janeway
From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.
- Leon Jaworski
If we learn not humility, we learn nothing.
- John Jewel
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
- Steve Jobs
Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?
- Sue Johanson
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsthat the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.
- Maureen Johnson
Clearly, one primary purpose of our existence upon the earth is to obtain a body of flesh and bones. We have also been given the gift of agency. In a thousand ways we are privileged to choose for ourselves. Here we learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that there are consequences attached to our actions.
- Thomas S Monson
All of us remember the home of our childhood. Interestingly, our thoughts do not dwell on whether the house was large or small, the neighborhood fashionable or downtrodden. Rather, we delight in the experiences we shared as a family. The home is the laboratory of our lives, and what we learn there largely determines what we do when we leave there.
- Thomas S Monson
We learn from the hard taskmaster of experience. We discern between good and evil. We differentiate as to the bitter and the sweet. We discover that decisions determine destiny.
- Thomas S Monson
When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count onhome and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.
- Thomas S Monson
We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.
- Virginia Johnson
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
- Joyce Meyer
Here's one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what's right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what's right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you're growing spiritually at that particular moment.
- Joyce Meyer
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way
- Norton Juster
Hope and courage and risk dwell inside of us on an uncharted island and if we learn to look for it and tap into it, our possibilities are endless.
- Katie Kacvinsky
One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
- Paul Kantner
I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills.
- Marcy Kaptur
Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
- Sam Keen
We learned three things together, that first day of Ethan's humanity: skin warms skin, silver eyes light darkness, and our heartbeats measured time together, so that we knew we were no longer alone.
- Vicki Keire
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
- Nancy Kerrigan
Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.
- Daniel Keyes
We learn to do by doing.
- Spencer W Kimball
In the Church, we can give expression to every ability, every righteous desire, every thoughtful impulse. Whether a volunteer, father, home teacher, bishop, or neighbor, whether a visiting teacher, mother, homemaker, or friendthere is ample opportunity to give our all. And as we give, we find that 'sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven!' (Hymns, no. 147) And in the end, we learn it was no sacrifice at all.
- Spencer W Kimball
When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?
- Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others.
- Caroline Knapp
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
- Jack Kornfield
As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.
- Wayne Kramer
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.
- Wayne Kramer
We played for peanuts. But we did what we wanted to do, we heard what we wanted to hear, we performed what we wanted to perform, we learned what we wanted to learn.
- Steve Lacy
It is right to pay heed to the stories of our people, for that is how we learn who we are and what is required of us in this life and the life beyond.
- Stephen R Lawhead
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We get used to our failures and imperfections. We become numb to the possibilities of something new
- Jonah Lehrer
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