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“Just because I'm staring deep into your birth canal does not mean that I'm fucked up. It means you should have paid more attention in high school and I have a dollar. I have four quarters and you have a bad job. Don't get pissed at me because you didn't learn how to type, you no-back-up-plan-having pain in the ass.”
“The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as Absolute, as Infinite, as Personal, while it may never in this life be able to fathom the full meaning of these sublime ideas.”
George C. Lorimer (1838–1904) said by 1904 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll always be what he was born: a wild animal.”
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.”
Lars Løkke Rasmussen (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From his New Year Address (1 January 2010).
“Fellowship with Jesus lies not alone in pleasurable emotions; you must learn it in suffering and in service.”
Anna Shipton (1815–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What view the bill-sticker and sandwich man take of the subject I have yet to learn. The first is, at least, no bad substitute for a hanging committee, and the clothes of the second are better company than somebody else’s picture, and less obtrusive than a background of stamped magenta paper.”
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Upon finding his quarry, he would learn what he could, make an evaluation, and act accordingly. Then he would tell his superiors whatever they wanted to hear, just as he always had.”
Bradley Denton (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.”
Gregory Colbert (born 1960) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dances With Whales" by Alan Riding in The New York Times (22 April 2002)
“The distance between folk society and literate society is ever decreasing, and Teresa Brewer will yet shake hands with Mrs. Texas Gladden. But until that happens—until my own culture, and Teresa Brewer's, develops a folk tradition of its own—If I want to learn something about real folk music, I'll stick with Mrs. Gladden.”
Sam Hinton (1917–2009) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last Words", Journal of American Folklore 71, (Jan–Mar 1958), p. 75
“We must learn to give ourselves permission to blunder, to fail, and to make fools of ourselves every day for the rest of our lives. We do so in any case.”
Sheldon B. Kopp (1929–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear … in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.”
Raj Patel (born 1972) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at 21 minuti (Retrieved on February 9, 2010.)
“The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That is the art of democracy. That is the art of citizenship.”
Raj Patel (born 1972) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About democracy (Retrieved on July 20, 2010.)
“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”
John Bartholomew Gough (1817–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would like to say I handle criticism well. In fact I enjoy reading the comments of the critics. It's great to have critics blasting you all the time. It keeps you on your toes, spurs you, challenges you, makes you want to get better. I take everything positively. There's so much to learn and do.”
Mallika Sherawat (born 1976) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Movie Mag International (September 2004)
“Both sides have a bad incentive. The people you tax, who do work, they are going to stop working. The people who learn to live getting income without working, they are going to work less too.”
Arthur Laffer (born 1940) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reagan will come back: Interview with Arthur Laffer” (24 December 2012), Interview conducted by Economiaendostardes in Spain (16 December 2012)
“In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know you'll never stay the same In time, most of us lose it, But I'm hoping, just the same, You'll shine and learn how to use it.”
Mike Oldfield (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's something wrong with democracy. If there weren't, it couldn't be overthrown by people like Makann, attacking it from within by democratic procedures. I don't think it's fundamentally unworkable. I think it just has a few of what engineers call bugs. It's not safe to run a defective machine till you learn the defects and remedy them.”
H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prince Simon Bentrik in Space Viking (1962-1963)
“You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty.”
Parmenides (515–470 BC) said by 470 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.”
Carl I. Hagen (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech at a local Progress Party chapter in Alfaz del Pi, Spain, published in Dagbladet (22 April 2006)
“Damn you!" Dagenham raged, “Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.” “Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.”
Alfred Bester (1913–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it.”
Carlos Gershenson (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if you could talk to it, you wouldn’t learn anything. All it would tell you is what it wanted you to hear. Or no, not even what it wants you to hear; it would generate words that in some kind of model of possible outcomes produce a result that enhances the likelihood of its reproductive success.” “I do that too,” Leo said. “From time to time.” Smiling. “Smartass,” Cassie said.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
John Cotton Dana (1856–1929) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 1912 Dana was asked to supply a Latin quotation suitable for inscription on a new building at Newark State College (now Kean College). Unable to find an appropriate quotation, Dana composed what became the college mo…
“Learn from each one of your defeats; your losses must be as close to you as your victories.”
Ashot Nadanian (born 1972) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: S'pore Chess News, 15 November 2010
“Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.”
Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.”
Laura Penny (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They who truly know have had to unlearn hardly less than they have had to learn.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The highest strength is acquired not in overcoming the world, but in overcoming one’s self. Learn to be cruel to thyself, to withstand thy appetites, to bear thy sufferings, and thou shalt become free and able.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Philosophers and theologians, like the vulgar, prefer contradiction to enlightenment. They refute one another more gladly than they learn from one another, as though man lived by shunning error and not by loving truth. Accept their formulas and they sink back into their easy chairs and comfortably doze.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How is it possible not to strive to know what the awakening minds of the young are eager to learn from us? It is little less than criminal that we should put them off with foolish speech or lies.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not find it hard to bear with ourselves, though we are full of faults. Why then may we not learn to be tolerant of others?”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not see rightly until we learn to eliminate what we expect or wish to see from what we really see.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They who think they know all, learn nothing.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the expensiveness of our pleasures that makes the world poor and keeps us poor in ourselves. If we could but learn to find enjoyment in the things of the mind, the economic problems would solve themselves.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past... so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.”
Epifanio de los Santos (1871–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Epifanio de los Santos by Fernando Bernardo. Silent storms: inspiring lives of 101 great Filipinos. Anvil Publishing, Inc.(2000). p. 37–38.
“I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.”
Mary Daly (1928–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn’t there? Isn’t Jesus Christ’s Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.”
Kenzaburō Ōe (1935–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state and a statistically "larger" public sector, have fewer government employees per capita than the United States does.”
Robert Kuttner (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the most exciting things about working in SF for me, a woman, is that SF is so open-ended-it's perfectly possible to imagine a world where sexism doesn't exist, or in which women can be presented in the context of new myths that women can admire or learn from.”
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.”
Abraham Kaplan (1918–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job – and what might destroy it.”
Jim Stanford (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.”
Anthony Stafford Beer (1926–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.”
Gabrielle Giffords (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source