Quotes about learn
learning men judging
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. Henry David Thoreau
learning wine four
There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour. Ethel Percy Andrus
learning childhood pulse
Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse. Eudora Welty
learning firsts
From the first I was clamorous to learn ... Eudora Welty
learning thinking german-language
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Flora Lewis
learning knowledge community
An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources". Henry Mintzberg
learning world found
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. Henry Miller
learning light order
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world. Helen Keller
learning way flutes
The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box. James Galway
learning loss persons
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. Izaak Walton
learning math fishing
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. Izaak Walton
learning accepting theory
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. Isaac Asimov
learning wind fire
The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
learning thinking deals
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr
learning students something-new
I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
learning laughing people
He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence. Gilbert Highet
learning years age
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. Francis Bacon
learning looks environment
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them. George Washington Carver
learning criminals crime
Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. George Washington
learning unhappy looks
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. George Orwell
learning self growing
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident. Franz Grillparzer
learning likes-and-dislikes personality
We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere. Faith Baldwin
learning presidential important
Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do. George W. Bush
learning community clubs
Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language. Frank Smith
learning cutting goes-on
One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off. Fay Weldon
learning artist race
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. Ezra Pound
learning men dragons
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance. Ezra Pound
learning belief judgment
Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed ... Francis Bacon
learning suspense prejudice
Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it. Francis Bacon
learning men genius
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer. Francis Bacon
learning simple men
The Creative knows the great beginnings. The Receptive completes the finished things. The Creative is decided and therefore shows to men the easy. The Receptive is yielding and therefore shows to men the simple. Learning is movement from moment to moment. Jiddu Krishnamurti
learn stupid took
He took a stupid penalty. He's an 18-year-old kid, and he's got to learn he can't play like this. Ilya Kovalchuk
learn mix needs pitches threw
He threw well. He's going to be good. He needs to learn to mix up his pitches more. Melvin Mora