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Learns Quotes (page 120)

Steven Brust quote: "Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom."
Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom. Steven Brust
As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off. Ursula K. Le Guin
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and... George Santayana
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries. Douglas Adams
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof. Gordon B. Hinckley
Bill Watterson quote: "Careful. We don't want to learn from this."
Careful. We don't want to learn from this. Bill Watterson
Edna St. Vincent Millay quote: "pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind..."
pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn. Edna St. Vincent Millay
He who learns must suffer; and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. Norman Mailer
William Shakespeare quote: "In such business. Action is eloquence, and the eyes of t?..."
In such business. Action is eloquence, and the eyes of t? ignorant. More learned than the ears. William Shakespeare
Maya Angelou quote: "I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your..."
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. Maya Angelou
Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93] Northrop Frye
So that's it. I've told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use language to express those thoughts. Love somebody with all your heart. And with everyone, whether you love them or not, find out if you can be helpful. But really, it's even simpler than that. After all this time, and all these talks in public and in private, I think I get it now. If I were taking my friend Arnold's suggestion and spoke from my deathbed, I think I know what I'd say. I see now... Alan Alda
Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social enviornment. Alan Watts
She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive. Elizabeth George

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