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“They communicate, but their communication system is through touch, posture, looks – body language you could call it, but it goes a bit deeper than that. They can learn 400 or more signs in American sign language.”
Jane Goodall (1934–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The successful managers know that the best way for their people to learn and grow is through experience and that means taking chances and making errors.”
Robert W. Bly (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To listen, to learn, your mind has to be still. Have you ever observed that you can have only one thought in your mind at a time?”
Barry Long (1926–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many rivers must we cross before we learn that the flood is rising high And the bridges all have burned Each time another dream is washed into the sea It's another piece of you It's another piece of me.”
“Men must have life, the opportunity to learn, to labor, to love. Without these fundamental virtues we cannot achieve. We must not give up the struggle until this is obtained.”
Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.”
Yoweri Museveni (born 1944) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Pressure builds for change" (April 2012), by Benon Herbert Oluka, Global: The International Briefing
“As in any discipline, to become good you need first to learn the rules. To become great, you need to break them.”
Tim Hurson (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves. So death isn’t to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphosis of life forms. What can you learn from this? (Ch 9)”
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.”
Elaine Paige (born 1948) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Portrait of the artist: Elaine Paige, actor" by Laura Barnett in The Guardian (22 May 2007)
“The race moves on. It has its human limitations. The tools we make have no limitations at all. When we educate ourselves to learn to handle those tools most efficiently we can go on to the next step, whatever it may be. Meanwhile there must be check and balance—rigid control.”
Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it — that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.”
Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each time I spoke, I gained a little courage. It took a long while—but today I have more happiness than I ever dreamed possible. In rearing my own children, I have always taught them the lesson I had to learn from such bitter experience: No matter what happens, always be yourself!”
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I jumped into the water with 45 sharks without a cage in the Bahamas for a Discovery Channel show. That was a really good experience. I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Parade Magazine 10 July 2008.
“What I'm trying to do when I visit your beautiful country, Australia, is warn Australians that even though it might not be the case today, learn from the mistakes that we made in Europe: be vigilant and look at Islam for what it really is. Islam is not a religion of peace.”
Geert Wilders (born 1963) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anti-Islam campaigner coming to Australia. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast: 13/02/2013. Reporter: Tony Jones.
“I enjoyed, and I tried to soak up and learn everything as fast as I could from doing any kind of music. It's good to have a gig. If you're a musician, it's good to be working. I love doing all of it, but Marry Me is my baby, St. Vincent is my child.”
St. Vincent (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sarkozy was elected last year by insisting on immigrants speaking French and insisting that they integrate into the French culture...Obama’s call for Americans to learn Spanish to accommodate the onslaught of Mexican immigrants makes the French government sound like Rush Limbaugh.”
Rachel Marsden (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. "Izzy," she would say, "did you ask a good question today?" That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.”
Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Great Minds Start With Questions" in Parents Magazine (September 1993).
“It's strange. In the last five minutes you have used my Christian name over and over again and never before. People I like learn my name too late.”
Peter Greenaway (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tyrannies teach what to think; free men learn how to think.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: David Eden Lane
“Me?! What? I don’t know, unless I must go to the dictionary and learn what a crook is. I’ve never been a crook. ... I'm saying I'm not a crook, I have never been a crook. I will never be a crook.”
Jacob Zuma (born 1942) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In reply to the question 'Are you a crook?', from BBC Panorama interviewer Fergal Keane, 11 February 2008
“We’re ashamed of what we are. That’s why we feel that we have to get rid of the values of our glorious history and run to learn from other, new nations. Don’t I look to you like a man of the world? Don’t I speak to the leading businessmen in the world? And it’s no problem that I’m a Jew, and a proud Jew who wears a skullcap everywhere. That’s my symbol and my identity.”
Lev Leviev (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as a Muslim studies Islam, the Jew has to study Judaism. Everyone has to learn the heritage of his family and the history that dates back thousands of years.”
Lev Leviev (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn while you're young," he often said, "There is much to enjoy, down here below; Life for the living, and rest for the dead!" Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.”
George Arnold (1834–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.”
Jim Starlin (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can’t amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That’s how you learn to treat people well. And that’s sexy.”
Nicole Lapin (born 1984) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Men's Health Magazine. (September 2007)
“That thing doesn’t care about you. It won’t reward you when you take risks. It is simply indifferent. That’s the fact about it that most never learn. They hate it and fear it and finally ignore it. Because of that. It would be easier if it hated us. Maybe even if it hunted us. But it doesn’t care. Remember.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man doesn’t have to take a gamble just ’cause it’s there. You got to learn that.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You got to learn to wait people out. Hear what they got to say. Not enough to have a majority rule, y’know. Otherwise, the minority won’t be convinced and they won’t support the plan. No point havin’ people at your elbow who’re against what you’re doin’. So we just got to talk it out Quaker-style till ever’body agrees. More efficient in the long run.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you're told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.”
Simon Hoggart (1946–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: America: A User's Guide (London: Collins, 1990), ch. 1, p. 33
“The best thing a parent of a newly diagnosed child can do is to watch their child without preconceived notions and judgements and learn how the child functions, acts, and reacts to his or her world. (p2)”
Temple Grandin (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.”
Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Erasmus of Rotterdam (1934), p. 116, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld
“Did we learn nothing from Terminator 3? Apart from the fact that Arnold Schwarzeneggar can act in the same way that octopi can figure skate. (27 March 2005)”
Ben Croshaw (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you possess the ability to learn from your mistakes, then failure is literally impossible, because each rejection brings you closer to perfection.”
Neil Strauss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've got a lot of young guys. A lot of good, young guys. But young guys can go out there and learn how to win quickly. I feel good about the guys behind me. I know that if I'm not in there, they'll do just as well as me.”
Emmitt Smith (born 1969) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robbie Andreu (August 31, 1989) "New and Improved Emmitt Slimmed Down Florida Running Back Emmitt Smith Insists That He Won't Be Carrying More Than His Fair Share of the Load This Season", Sun-Sentinel
“I've never had to go very far to learn everything I have learned. I just had to care about something & pay attention.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 19 January 2010
“What do you want to have true? Pick something between total fantasy & 51% believable, get going, & readjust as you learn.”
David Allen (born 1945) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 17 January 2011
“It is as though a star throws the whole secret history of its being into its spectrum, and we have only to learn how to read it aright in order to solve the most abstruse problems of the physical Universe.”
Herbert Dingle (1890–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's fascinating to watch a show develop from a script to a 22-minute comedy. I try to learn as much, and ask as many questions, as I can without being annoying.”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hollywood Reporter November 7, 1995.
“We should learn to think with our fingers.”
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Meditation (2003) by Jose Lorenzo-Fuentes, p. 113
“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life.”
Huey P. Newton (1942–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's a tip I've never used: I understand you can learn a great deal of girldom by reading Pride and Prejudice, and I own a copy, but I have never read it. I tried. It was given to me by a girl with a little not inside that read: What is in this book is the heart of a woman. I am sure the heart of a woman is pure and lovely, but the first chapter of said heart is hopelessly boring.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I mean that to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people," Paul says. "That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Before the rising sun we fly, So many roads to choose We start out walking and learn to run.”
Paul Williams (songwriter) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We've Only Just Begun" (1970).
“We're old souls in a new life baby. They gave us a new life To live and learn.”
Paul Williams (songwriter) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How fast we learn in the day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in a new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.”
M. H. Abrams (1912–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.”
John Templeton (1912–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source