Learns Quotes
512 quotes by 404 authors
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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
— Jean Giraudoux
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No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and…
— James Fallows
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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great…
— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
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Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a…
— Andy Rooney
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to…
— Rudyard Kipling
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One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns…
— Horace Walpole
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
— Don DeLillo
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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention…
— Friedrich List
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One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.
— Frank Stella
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An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out…
— Criss Jami
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Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.
— Archibald Rutledge
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Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every…
— Hermann Bondi
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A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one…
— Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
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Who learns most from a good book is the author.
— Jose Bergamin
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The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper…
— Jeff Dunham
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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball…
— Danny Elfman
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It's the one who won't be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.
— Bette Midler
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In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation…
— G. C. Berkouwer
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At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims…
— Jonathan Kellerman
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