We Learn Quotes

821 quotes by 634 authors

Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be surprising that object… — George Lakoff
As we hang beneath the heavens, and we hover over hell, our hearts become the instruments we learn to play so well. — Dan Fogelberg
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they… — Walter Dean Myers
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal, so fundamentally a… — Jim Butcher
In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their… — John Ortberg
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes… — Ibrahim Babangida
As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine. — Jack Kornfield
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. — Robert Breault
I think that the war on drugs is domestic Vietnam. And didn't we learn from Vietnam that, at a certain point in the war, we… — Kurt Schmoke
We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to… — Judy Tatelbaum
The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things… — Theodore T. Munger
If we learn not humility, we learn nothing. — John Dewey
By disciplining and training the mind to focus on one thing, we gain control of perception; we learn to grab it and put it someplace… — Frederick Lenz
Mindfulness means that as we go through the day we learn to gain control of our mind, our emotions. We learn to conserve energy in… — Frederick Lenz
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn language properly, right… — Charles de Lint
Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of… — Sydney J. Harris
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories,… — Alice Walker

Who Wrote These We Learn Quotes

634 authors contributed a total of 821 We Learn Quotes, led by these top contributors: