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Learned Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer"…
- This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics,…
- The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
- People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning…
- Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it…
- A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered…
More Learned Quotes
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It… — Aaliyah
- When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands. — Chinua Achebe
- I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
- I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
- Everything I need to know, I learned in Iowa. I grew up here in Iowa. — Michele Bachmann
- I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who… — Michele Bachmann
- If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
- An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often… — Russell Baker
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus… — Abu Bakr