Learns Quotes

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Every German child learns to speak English in school.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.

Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.