We Learn Quotes

821 quotes by 634 authors

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man.… — Pablo Casals
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life… — Jack Kornfield
I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living,… — Martha Graham
Time is the school in which we learn. — Joan Didion
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books… — Laurie Anderson
A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will… — Abigail Adams
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. — Pema Chodron
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose… — Norton Juster
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it… — Rita Mae Brown
As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At… — Martha C. Nussbaum
We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness. — Bernard Malamud
It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and… — M. Scott Peck
Only in books do we learn whatâ€™s really going on. — Kurt Vonnegut
A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in… — M. Russell Ballard
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn… — Richard Paul Evans
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the… — Adrienne Rich
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it â€“ thatâ€™s how we learn. — Rick Warren
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer… — C. Terry Warner

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