Quotes for: to learn

Quotes for: to learn

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.
André Gide

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield

Learning to love is why we are here.
Abbé Pierre

What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Lectures on the Philosophy of History

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”

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When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

to learn

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

All rules for study are summed up in this one: learn only in order to create.
Friedrich von Schelling

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei

Culture is what remains when one has forgotten everything we had learned.
Selma Lagerlöf

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Isidore of Seville

Philosophize is to learn how to die.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw

From one, learn all.
Publius Vergilius Maro - Aeneid

to learn

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

The passions have taught men reason.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The passions have taught men reason.

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Since I learned to laugh at myself, I'm never bored.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway

to learn

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke - Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius - Analects

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

No man can learn what he has not preparation for learning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Spiritual Laws

to learn

I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

Never do anything which you do not understand. But learn all you ought to know, and by that means you will lead a very pleasant life.
Pythagoras

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein

You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Desiderius Erasmus

A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant.
Desiderius Erasmus