I Learned Quotes

1923 I Learned quotes by 1532 unique authors

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all… — Brenda Ueland
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND… — John Irving
I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his… — George MacDonald
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome… — Helen Keller
If there's one thing I learned from Rodrick, it's to set people's expectations real low so you end up surprising them by practically doing nothing… — Jeff Kinney
The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like… — Maya Angelou
He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience… — Cormac McCarthy
This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and… — Jeremy Narby
Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want… — David Sheff
All I have learned, I learned from books. — Abraham Lincoln
A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara — Lisa Kleypas
I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than… — Marilynne Robinson
I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less… — Yann Martel
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. — P.D. James
The first thing I learned at school was that some people are idiots; the second thing I learned was that some are even worse. — Orhan Pamuk
For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part… — Jacqueline Carey
I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed… — Anita Shreve
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. — Margaret George
I learned to fly on a broom," he said, rolling up his sleeves. "I can learn to milk a goat, I bet." Though flying on… — Gregory Maguire
I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And… — Amy Tan
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.… — Chaim Potok
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. — Khaled Hosseini
I learned failure early and mastered it. — Gregory Maguire
He gave me something that day... something I wanted to protect. And when it was taken from me I learned how small I was. I… — Kazuya Minekura

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