Learnt Quotes

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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if… — Paul Dirac
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there… — Izaak Walton
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought… — Bertrand Russell
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the… — Terry Brooks
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation,… — Rajneesh
The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative… — Jonathan Ive
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and… — Rose Macaulay
I have been privileged to grow up retaining the love of good journalism, the craft, while learning its business: the dollars and cents. I have… — Lachlan Murdoch
I have learnt that all our theories are not Truth itself, but resting places or stages on the way to the conquest of Truth, and… — Justus von Liebig
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society. — Samuel Johnson
The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. — Frederick Denison Maurice
Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take… — Giovanni Battista Morgagni
[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack
It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge… — Jean-Andre Deluc
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to… — Natasha Richardson
A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules… — Peter Atkins
[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black
I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no… — Georges St-Pierre

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