Learning Quote by Anonymous

“Living in a world where constantly one turned and touched incomprehension—they did not comprehend, he did not comprehend—gave the air the lift of uncertainty…

— Elizabeth Strout

“He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.”

— Graham Greene

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

“being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty, nor impatient. If he pushed forward impulsively, he…

— Paulo Coelho

Even a foolish child can grow up in a right way,when he/she learns what pain is. Knowing pain controls ones thoughts and decisions

— Pain

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“suspicion had sometimes been current that he really was as unruffled as he looked, and that whatever happened, he did not give a damn.…

— James Hilton

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but…

— James Hogg

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt…

— Nick Hornby

“It had belonged to that idea of the exasperated consciousness of his victim to become a real test for him; since he had quite…

— Henry James

The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very…

— Adam Smith