Learned Quotes

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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering. — Jane Rule
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… — Joe Baca
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions. — Thomas Jefferson
A poem is a serious joke, a truth that has learned jujitsu. — William Stafford
For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world. — Christopher Smart
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… — Mario Vargas Llosa
They tell you that at his age, all they do is eat, sleep, and poop. And what I've learned is they can actually do all… — Josh Duhamel
Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness… — T.E. Lawrence
When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm… — Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't hold on to fear as much as I used to, because I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about… — Gwyneth Paltrow
I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The… — Hazel McCallion
When I was going through my cancer treatment, I learned that you can never ask a stupid question. I asked every single question that came… — Maura Tierney
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his… — Clarence Darrow
I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only… — Landon Pearson
One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you… — Mike DeWine
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned… — James A. Michener
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. — Anton Chekhov
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by… — Katherine Anne Porter
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor… — Lord Acton

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