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“Don't be afraid of your past. Learn from it so it can empower your present.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Listen to what others have to say. When you speak, you're only repeating things you already know. When you listen you learn.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is when we hurt that we learn.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some of the greatest lessons you learn in life are the ones communicated without a single word spoken.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't confuse poor decision making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's OK; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The absence of a golden rule for mattress flipping is a disappointment, but it does not portend the demise of civilization. We can adapt; we can learn to live with it. Chapter 12, Group Theory In The Bedroom, p. 229.”
Brian Hayes (scientist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn to use time, think of it as a friend, not an enemy. Don't waste it in going after things you don't want.”
Michael Korda (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn to accept your mistakes. Don't be a perfectionist about everything.”
Michael Korda (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing you learn fast in the munitions business is that it’s a very good idea to stay off battlefields.”
James Blish (1921–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and – to perfect it.”
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beckmann's lecture 'Drei Briefe an eine Malerin' ('Three letters to a Woman-painter'), New York and Boston, Spring 1948; as cited in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and …
“We must all learn to live together as brothers — or we will all perish together as fools. This is the great issue facing us today. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone. We are tied together.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must either learn to live together as brothers or we are all going to perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is that, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When Churchill was in opposition after 1945, he led the Conservative Party in a debate about the Health Service. As he listened to Aneurin Bevan's opening speech, he called for some statistics about infant mortality ...…
“Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught, but I shall not attempt to foreshadow the proposals which will be brought before the House tomorrow. Today it will be sufficient and appropriate to deal with the obvious difficulties and confusion of the situation as we found it on taking office.”
Winston Churchill (1874–1965) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In debate in the House of Commons, 4 Nov 1952
“One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.”
Napoleon (1769–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) said by 1906 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. If we could learn from mere experience, the stones of London would be wiser than its wisest men.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? "It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils," came a low growl from somewhere on the table, "without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always expecting this and expecting that. May I recommend serenity to you? A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment. Learn to be one with the joy of the moment.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let men learn (as we have said above) the difference that exists between the idols of the human mind, and the ideas of the Divine mind. The former are mere arbitrary abstractions; the latter the true marks of the Creator on his creatures, as they are imprinted on, and defined in matter, by true and exquisite touches. Truth, therefore, and utility are here perfectly identical.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) said by 1626 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way I attempted to learn Japanese was by reading a book called Japanese at a Glance in the plane from San Francisco to Tokyo. This is not the method recommended by experts. The method recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan.”
Dave Barry (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without tact you can learn nothing.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bad times have a scientific value. [...] We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master at some point, and in that, I learn of him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Think, Vol. 4-5 (1938), p. 32
“In order to learn the important lessons in life, one must each day surmount to fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There are ongoing disputes on who should receive credit for this quote. The earliest match that could be found was in an article published by Los Angeles Times in 1936, which attributed the quote to Elbert Hubbard, but …
“Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) said by 1883 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.”
Stephen Leacock (1869–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 216
“When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) first seen 1843 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson (8 June 1843)
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) said by 1862 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As long as the Jew has not succeeded in mastering other peoples he is forced to speak their language whether he likes it or not. But the moment that the world would become the slave of the Jew it would have to learn some other language so that by this means the Jew could dominate all the more easily.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement to Franz Halder, as quoted in (1993) by Robert George Leeson Waite, p. xi
“Then I remembered the first lesson God had set me: "Learn what dwells in man." And I understood that in man dwells Love! I was glad that God had already begun to show me what He had promised, and I smiled for the first time.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, "Learn what is not given to man." 'What dwells in man" I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pain is the body's way of showing us we're bone-heads. A child growing up in an excessively safe environment may never learn that he is one — not until he gets married and has a wife to tell him so.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Australian language is easier to learn than boat talk. It has a vocabulary of about six words.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.”
P. J. O'Rourke (1947–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) first seen 1751 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No. 96 (16 February 1751)