Learnt Quotes
442 quotes by 395 authors
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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
— Oscar Wilde
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If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk…
— Alex Garland
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Well, I’ve learnt this much: it doesn’t matter what it costs, it’s worth paying the price. You can’t live cheap and you can’t live for…
— John Marsden
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Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.
— David Clement-Davies
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I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in…
— Luke Davies
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left…
— William Shakespeare
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It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
— Mark Twain
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You would think, wouldn’t you, that if you were the child of a happy marriage, then you ought to have a better than average marriage…
— Julian Barnes
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The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we…
— Julian Barnes
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It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet…
— Thomas Hardy
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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
— Bear Grylls
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Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth."…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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But maybe the best thing I learnt was this: that we cannot know a person's soul and nature until we've sat beside them, and talked.
— Susan Fletcher
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I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke…
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more…
— Victor Serge
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We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like…
— Luis Sepúlveda
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