Learned Quotes
6471 quotes by 4101 authors
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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to profit from the…
— Cus D'Amato
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What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.
— Stephen Hawking
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As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
— Po Bronson
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The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
— James R Newman
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Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither…
— Terry Pratchett
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It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really…
— Drew Bledsoe
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not…
— Richard Adams
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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
— Lloyd Alexander
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God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the…
— Anselm of Canterbury
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might…
— Harold Bloom
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I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I…
— Gloria Steinem
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We have learned that peace and well-being are indivisible and that our peace and well-being cannot be purchased at the price of peace or the…
— James F. Byrnes
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I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when…
— William E. Gladstone
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It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
— Thomas Paine
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I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right…
— Orson Scott Card
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There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think.…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.
— Ray Bradbury
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My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by…
— Bobby Sands
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