Learns Quotes

512 quotes by 417 authors

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions. — Otis Skinner
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. — Confucius
The past has infinite value if one learns from it. — Ken Hensley
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. — Oscar Wilde
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. — Epicurus
One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim… — Mark Twain
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which… — Charles Caleb Colton
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. — Josh Billings
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's… — William J. Clinton
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to… — Irving Langmuir
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect. — Mark Twain
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. — Katharine Hepburn
. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about.… — Ernest Holmes
Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity… — Rajneesh
To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with biology. It is… — Rajneesh

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