Learning Quotes · Page 367

“i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”

— robert jordan

I keep learning and improving and that will help me in the future.

— Kelechi Iheanacho

“A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.”

— Shaykh Sa di

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

— Plato

“read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.”

— Robert James

“The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Knowledge is only gained through learning and clemency is only gained through perseverance.”

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

I will never understand why you would want to make somebody jealous. What's the point? It doesn't get you anywhere.

— Josh Hi

I've spent many hours of my life browsing in stores. At 21, I admired clothes I couldn't afford. At 30, I bought…

— Rumaan Alam

There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the…

— Madeleine Albright

“We often mistakenly assume that because someone has genuine understanding in one particular area, this mastery necessarily extends to all other areas…

— Joseph Goldstein

With a more intimate understanding of our world, we can begin to eradicate some of our most pressing challenges - even hunger…

— Tae Yoo

“The second element of change is understanding. By understanding where your “way of thinking” originates, you can recognize that it has to…

— T. Harv Eker

“As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So…

— Timothy Ferriss

“When we see the nature of interbeing, barriers between ourselves and others are dissolved, and peace, love, and understanding are possible. Whenever…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

For me, I've learned about what it means to focus on a culture, to build social responsibility, and the idea of a…

— Biz Stone

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function…

— Thomas de Quincey

I think that obviously the quest for purpose, or meaning, or understanding to existence is something that I always think about, always…

— Conor Oberst

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-handand by the halves, and is poorauthority. We are most interested when science…

— Henry David Thoreau

I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those…

— William Hazlitt

“I once had a substitute teacher in my 4th grade class that was wonderful. He said learning was like throwing mud on…

— Michele Gwynn

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever…

— Thomas Huxley

Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both…

— Brian D. McLaren

Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced…

— Peter Singer

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I haven't been writing

— Groucho Marx

“Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.”

— Raheel Farooq

“It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.”

— Jostein Gaarder

If you refuse to drink from the fountain of knowledge, you'll die of thirst in the desert of ignorance!

— Anonymous

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

— Immanuel Kant

“One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient.”

— Charles M. Blow

It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.

— Albert Einstein

The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

— Lord Chesterfield

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

— David Sedaris

“She would be more understanding of his hard work, if she felt connected to him when he was home.”

— Steven Stosny

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.

— Joe Abercrombie

I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters.

— Linda McMahon

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

— Simon Heffer

Everything I learned about the game of baseball, I learned from my dad.

— Roberto Alomar