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Learned Quotes (page 78)

Madeleine L'Engle quote: "(Y)ou've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty."
(Y)ou've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty. Madeleine L'Engle
Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be. Gene Wolfe
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology Noam Chomsky
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game. Oriana Fallaci
We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark. Lorenzo Snow
T. S. Eliot quote: "We must learn to suffer more."
We must learn to suffer more. T. S. Eliot
Colin Powell quote: "There are no secrets to success. It's the result of..."
There are no secrets to success. It's the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure. Colin Powell
College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America. Robert M. Hutchins
Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood. Federico Garcia Lorca
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised. Abraham Joshua Heschel
William Blake quote: "The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to..."
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow William Blake
Paulo Coelho quote: "If you want to see a rainbow, you have to learn to like the rain."
If you want to see a rainbow, you have to learn to like the rain. Paulo Coelho
They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears. Toni Morrison
Bryan White quote: "People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public."
People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. Bryan White
If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams. Edward Abbey

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