Top 100 Learning Words Quotes
#1. Words have to die if humans are to live.
Idries Shah
#2. In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
#5. Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.
Steven Furtick
#7. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.
Henri Nouwen
#8. This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.
Joan Barfoot
#9. Nestled in the valley of darkness, in the deepest depths of depression, are the priceless gems of; creativity, intuition and sensitivity. The trick is learning how to navigate the dark, so these precious gems can be unearthed and their beauty beheld.
Jaeda DeWalt
#10. On his deathbed, Aldous Huxley reflected on his entire life's learning and then summed it up in seven simple words: Let us be kinder to one another.
Robin S. Sharma
#11. And imagine acquiring a new language and only learning the words to describe a wonderful world, refusing to know the words for a bleak one and in doing so linguistically shaping the world that you inhabit.
Rosamund Lupton
#13. Taking a shaky breath, I spoke. "Well, recently, I learned how much my words affect people, even if it's just one word.
Darcy Ridge
#15. Learning the hard way fits with people
who don't take lessons of the soft words.
Toba Beta
#16. I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
Sutton Foster
#17. In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#18. When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody who whatever everybody is doing, they do the opposite." I remember raising my hand and saying, "Mrs. Christiansen, I would like to be a nonconformist."
Nick Offerman
#19. There is power in well-chosen words, and often there is equal power in silence. Learning when to talk and when to listen are among the most powerful skills you can develop.
Sharon Anthony Bower
#20. There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
Lady Gregory
#21. My words itch at your ears till you understand them
Walt Whitman
#23. Learn how to learn...then start learning
Munia Khan
#24. I can do this, he was thinking. All I have to do is just be as normal as everyone else. All I have to do is just not blow apart like a two-dollar clock. Just pick words and put one of them after the other like a baby learning to walk, like a drunk carefully crossing the street.
William Gay
#25. I don't believe there's such a thing as conventional love. Love is bending. Love is breaking. Love is constantly learning about the other person until you go crazy because it will never be perfect, but there's no fault in trying. I've loved a boy who was extraordinary beyond words, in my eyes.
Amber L. Johnson
#26. Remember that the three words that kills learning are "I already know".
Dedy Budiman
#27. Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for you
As for my patron, stand you so assured,
As firmly as yourself were in still place -
Yea, and perhaps with more successful words
Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.
O this learning, what a thing it is!
William Shakespeare
#28. Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
Raph Koster
#29. The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain.
Tom Hiddleston
#30. Intelligence is what we learn.
Wisdom is what we unlearn.
J.R. Rim
#31. I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.
Kids just have an easier time with words.
Brian K. Vaughan
#32. Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
Harley King
#33. If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.
Archibald MacLeish
#34. If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
Aldous Huxley
#36. I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.
Harper Lee
#37. The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.
Roy Peter Clark
#38. Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.
Others may misunderstand my good intentions,
judge my words or deeds, find fault,
or blame what they truly do not understand.
But God knows my heart.
He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,
to be all He created me to be.
Lori Nawyn
#39. Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#40. you aren't particularly good at positive self-talk, then it's time to practice and change your words. Don't talk about being overweight, ugly or dumb...because your children are listening and learning. They also need
Katrina Kahler
#41. MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.
Idries Shah
#42. While learning about phobias in my college psychology course, I came across the fear of long words- or, as referred to in the medical community: hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
John Goldner
#44. There is much reading material that is available which is either time-wasting or corrupting. The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.
Ezra Taft Benson
#45. Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel De Montaigne
#46. Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan Swift
#49. A "question" is a microscope of words.
Ted Agon
#50. Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
Norton Juster
#51. For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with pen- that one must learn how to write
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself.
An Na
#53. Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words "village" and "age" whatsoever.
Jakub Marian
#55. When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning Greek was like being given a super-power: linguistic x-ray vision.
Madeline Miller
#56. Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words.
Peter Abelard
#57. I live by four words and I have it tattooed on my arms as well. It just says, 'Live, learn, love life'. So you live your life to the best way you can. Every situation is a learning one so take those lessons, learn from it and love your life.
Chris Johnson
#58. Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
John Crowley
#59. The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is achieved only by listening to all of life and learning to respond to each of its dimensions wholly and with integrity.
Joan D. Chittister
#60. I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#61. We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
Maya Angelou
#62. September suddenly realized something. "But Ell, Orrery begins with O! How can you know so much about it?"
The Wyverary soared high, his neck stretching into a long red ribbon, full of words and pies and relief and flying.
"I'm growing up!" he cried.
Catherynne M Valente
#63. They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.
Maggie Stiefvater
#64. Keep Reading.
Keep Writing.
Keep Pushing yourself!
And never stop learning!
We writerly types have to stick together mostly because everybody else thinks we're "weird".
Darynda Jones
#65. in Italian. For the first time in his new home, Rick admitted to himself that learning a few words was not a bad idea. In fact, it was a great idea if he had any hope of scoring points with the girls.
John Grisham
#66. Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.
Timothy Keller
#67. The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.
Robyn Davidson
#68. Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#70. Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power. Find your own individual voice though practicing constantly. Go through the world with your eyes and ears open and learn to express that experience in words.
P.D. James
#71. Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.
Ruby K. Payne
#72. Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller
#73. I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.
Marc Almond
#75. Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
Elie Wiesel
#77. When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.
Anna Deavere Smith
#79. I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet
buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture
than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.
Mary Karr
#80. The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.
Joseph Addison
#81. The question is a curious collection of words.
Ted Agon
#84. Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#85. With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#86. I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric.
Allen Ginsberg
#88. As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.
Chris Ware
#90. He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.
Markus Zusak
#91. Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?
DaShanne Stokes
#93. I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.
Emo Philips
#95. Whenever she opened a scientific book and saw whole paragraphs of incomprehensible words and symbols, she felt a sense of wonder at the great territories of learning that lay beyond her - the sum of so many noble and purposive attempts to make objective sense of the world.
Vikram Seth
#96. The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.
Henry Miller
#97. A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it
Ana Claudia Antunes
#98. Usually when someone is angry we hear their angry words. Instead, try hearing the unspoken, I am scared, I am frustrated, I am insecure, I am vulnerable, I am threatened.
Charles F. Glassman
#100. In the Middle Ages, as in antiquity, they read usually, not as today, principally with the eyes, but with the lips, pronouncing what they saw, and with the ears, listening to the words pronounced. hearing what is called the "voices of the pages." It is a real acoustical reading.
Jean Leclercq
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