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Things Learned Quotes (page 19)

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence. Jack London
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. Viktor E. Frankl
When you’re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can’t make up their minds. Perhaps it’s a way of admitting that things can’t ever bear the same certainty again. Julian Barnes
When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.-Aunt Jimsie L. M. Montgomery
Alexander Pope quote: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, taste not..."
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, taste not the Pierian Spring Alexander Pope
I never presume to give advice on writing. I think the best way to learn to write is to read booksand stories by bood writers. It's a hard thing to preach about. As Thelonious Monk once said abouthis field, "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Maureen Dowd
How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do. Tom Robbins
Willa Cather quote: "Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm."
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. Willa Cather
Going public was a difficult decision, and I had misgivings. My subjective experience was now an objective fact in the wider world. It didn't belong to just me anymore - though I quickly learned that it hadn't belonged to just me in the first place. More than a million Americans and their families were going through the same thing; some openly, some in secret due to concerns of being misunderstood and marginalized. Michael J. Fox
Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific as an old woman secretly poring over books about occultism, trying to tell her own fortune, and learning how to dope out the future form the lines in the palm of her hand. I don't know if I ever got very close to needing a padded cell: but if I ever had gone crazy, I think psychoanalysis would have been the one thing chiefly responsible for it. Thomas Merton
Alain de Botton quote: "Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly..."
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. Alain de Botton
Paul Rand quote: "You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives..."
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. Paul Rand
Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. Ernest Hemingway
Nicholas Sparks quote: "I'd learned that some things are best kept secret."
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. Nicholas Sparks
Jane Austen quote: "The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a..."
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing Jane Austen

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