We Learned Quotes
160 quotes by 147 authors
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Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We…
— George Saunders
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We were green: we ripened and grew golden. The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown. Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings. We…
— Rumi
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A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or…
— Desmond Tutu
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And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to…
— Joan Bauer
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We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection
— Robert A. Heinlein
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And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than…
— Che Guevara
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I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the…
— Alice Sebold
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What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a…
— Orson Scott Card
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One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow…
— Vincent Price
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there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to…
— George S. Clason
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We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each…
— Tana French
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie. But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could…
— Judy Blundell
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We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we…
— Tamora Pierce
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Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.†“That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able…
— Patti Smith
Who Wrote These We Learned Quotes
147 authors contributed a total of 160 We Learned Quotes, led by these top contributors: