"You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn……" — Sarah Manguso
"You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness."
More Brightness Quotes
- There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting… — Charles Edward Jefferson
- Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have. — Woodrow Wilson
- Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush… — Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
- The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the… — Robert Stawell Ball
- [Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of… — Bertrand Russell
- Money refused loose its brightness. — George Herbert
- We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. — Rainer Maria Rilke
- My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
- Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna.… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
- I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a… — Diane Arbus
- The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. — James Joyce
- Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning, then a light; and at… — Thomas Adams