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“It is right therefore that India should be eager to learn more about Russia. So far her information has been largely derived from subsidised news agencies inimical to Russia, and the most fantastic stories about her have been circulated.”
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The abolition of classes means, not merely ousting the landowners and the capitalists - that is something we accomplished with comparative ease; it also means abolishing the small commodity producers, and they cannot be ousted, or crushed; we must learn to live with them.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every cook must learn to rule the State.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Woman's Place by Florence Becker, in New International, Vol. 2 No. 5 (August 1935), pp.175-176; also in Woman in Soviet Russia (1935) by Fannina W. Halle.
“There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn't exist. In a free society, an open society, people have strong opinions, and these opinions very often clash. In a democracy, we have to learn to deal with this. And this is true about novels, it's true about cartoons, it's true about all these products.”
Salman Rushdie (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.”
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.”
Huey Long (1893–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On conservative resistance to illiteracy programs for Negroes. Williams, Huey Long (1969), p. 706
“Government — they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.”
Bill Maher (born 1956) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Real talk with Bill Maher" by Joan Walsh at Salon.com (16 February 2007)
“We can't even reform the way we make pennies and nickels. This week we learn that making a penny now costs 2 cents and making a nickel costs 9 cents, which makes no sense.”
Bill Maher (born 1956) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Apple should take over government" May 14, 2010.
“Reader, — This Enchiridion, I present thee with, is the Fruit of Solitude: A School few care to learn in, tho' None Instructs us better. Some Parts of it are the Result of serious Reflection: Others the Flashings of Lucid Intervals: Writ for private Satisfaction, and now publish'd for an Help to Human Conduct.”
William Penn (1644–1718) said by 1718 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Case of Voluntary Ignorance" in Collected Essays (1959)
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the reason we're going to win the nomination is because of you. Because soon or later, all Americans are going to learn what you've already learned; that the biggest lie told by people like me to people like you at election time is that, "If you vote for me, I'm going to solve all your problems." The truth is, the power to change this country is in your hands, not mine.”
Howard Dean (born 1948) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: January 27, 2004
“If I am to live longer, perhaps I must live out my old age, seeing and hearing less, understanding worse, coming to learn with more difficulty and to be more forgetful, and growing worse than those to whom I was once superior. Indeed, life would be unliveable, even if I did not notice the change. And if I see the change, how could life not be even more wretched and unpleasant?”
Socrates (470–399 BC) said by 399 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stupid people can learn a language quiet and easy because there is nothing going on in there to keep it out.”
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is so personal to me. I can be myself, and say what I want to say. I feel I'm honest and don't try to hide things. But music enables people to learn about my personality, how I'm evolving. Even if I don't feel comfortable talking about something, I can feel comfortable expressing that same thing through my music.”
Hilary Duff (born 1987) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hilary Duff comes to Manchester on Jan. 27". The Dover Community News. December 31 2004. Retrieved October 25 2006.
“You, whom I made for man's worship when earth was younger and fairer, hearken, and learn why I breathe new life into husks from my scrap-heaps! Gods of old days, discrowned, disjected, and treated as rubbish, hark to the latest way of the folk whose fathers you succored! They have discarded you utterly.”
James Branch Cabell (1879–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.”
Clint Eastwood (born 1930) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Investor's Business Daily (April 9, 2001), A-4.
“Until you live, learn how to live.”
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.”
Richard Stallman (born 1953) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Linux, GNU, and freedom" in LinuxWorld (May 2002)
“Let Ariel learn a blessing for Caliban and Caliban drink dew from the lotus open upon the waters.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is required of us is that we love the difficult and learn to deal with it. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke (1960)
“Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter Seven (14 May 1904)
“We're going to move a lot of crude (oil) in this country, and we have to learn how to do it very safely. "Buffett: Moving Oil By Rail Safely Is A Major Industry Concern" Investing.com (24 April 2014)”
Warren Buffett (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We learn nothing by being right.”
Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The American child is a highly intelligent human being — characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be Skeptical, but Learn to Listen.”
Miguel Ángel Ruiz (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As to the having and possessing of things, teach them to part with what they have, easily and freely to their friends, and let them find by experience that the most liberal has always the most plenty, with esteem and commendation to boot, and they will quickly learn to practise it.”
John Locke (1632–1704) said by 1704 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.”
John Locke (1632–1704) said by 1704 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.”
John Locke (1632–1704) said by 1704 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I am saying in this book can be summed up in two words: Trust Children. Nothing could be more simple, or more difficult. Difficult because to trust children we must first learn to trust ourselves, and most of us were taught as children that we could not be trusted.”
John Holt (1923–1985) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Children Learn (1967).
“You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Keep me alive. Keep me alive long enough for me to conquer the animal within myself. Long enough for me to learn to partner myself with a woman who is better and stronger than me. Long enough for me to reconcile myself with my brothers. Long enough to be as good a man as my father, and as good as my mother, too.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.”
William James (1842–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!”
Chris Rock (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You learn more from fucking up than you do from success, unfortunately. And failure, if you don't let it defeat you, is what fuels your future success.”
Chris Rock (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]here is no gardening without humility, an assiduous willingness to learn, and a cheerful readiness to admit that you were mistaken. Nature is continually sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once learn how Nature gardens for herself, and you will be able to spare yourself a good deal of trouble.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) said by 1913 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The salmon swimming upstream to spawn may be wily in a hundred ways, but she cannot even contemplate the prospect of abandoning her reproductive project and deciding instead to live out her days studying coastal geography or trying to learn Portuguese. The creation of a panoply of new standpoints is, to my mind, the most striking product of the euprimatic revolution.”
Daniel Dennett (1942–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Learning to Expect the Unexpected," The New York Times (2004-04-08}
“Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie withing every human being, looked outward—pushed ever outward. What mankind hoped to learn in its outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all creation was all about.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It may surprise you to learn that I take a certain pride, no matter how foolishly mistaken that pride may be, in making my own decisions for my own reasons.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source