Learn Quotes - page 7

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. (M. H. Abrams)

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Lou Holtz

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

Cicero

When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

Cicero

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

Cat Stevens

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Ezra Pound

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Henry S. Haskins

The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.

Jonathan Ive

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Robert E. Lee

My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter. (Robert Jordan)

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

Emma Thompson

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

Robert Frost

Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song I'mboundaway And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

Robert Frost

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Annie Dillard

Learn to think continentally.

Alexander Hamilton

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Robert Benchley

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

Cato the Elder

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Margaret Mead

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

Ursula K. Le Guin

So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. (William Morris)

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Epictetus

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.

Jane Goodall

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

Henry Miller

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