Top 100 We Learn Quotes
#1. Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.
Frances Hesselbein
#2. Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.
Richard Foster
#3. Losses are always great eye openers. Pleasures never open our eyes. It's only through pain that we learn our weaknesses.
Swami Satchidananda
#4. Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two.
Ray Bradbury
#5. In school we learn things then take the test, In everyday life we take the test then we learn things. - Admon Israel
Anonymous
#6. When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.
Bud Harris
#7. Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy ...
Leo Buscaglia
#8. We are none of us perfect, and ... we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are
Patricia Briggs
#9. We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.
Grace Williams
#10. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#12. Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
#13. Sometimes the most ordinary things are the ones we learn to miss the most.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#14. Always we learn things and then we forget them.
Dave Eggers
#15. Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#16. I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
Jackson Pearce
#17. We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.
Jacque Fresco
#19. The smile he gave her was barely one at all. We are all fragile, Isabelle. It's the thing we learn in war.
Kristin Hannah
#20. Silence is never an admission. We learn that in law school.
Kenneth Eade
#21. God wants to dance with us. The goal of dancing is NOT to learn the steps. The goal of dancing is to enjoy your partner. We learn the steps but only so we don't have to look down at our feet. We are free to look into the eyes of the one we love.
Nicole Johnson
#22. For some reason we feel we should be perfect, and forget that we learn through our mistakes. Our need to be perfect and our need to control the outcome of events work together to keep us petrified when we think about making a change or attempting a new challenge.
Susan Jeffers
#23. We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.
Loren Eiseley
#25. Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
Bell Hooks
#26. Some drill and bore
The solid earth, and from the strata there
Extract a register, by which we learn,
That he who made it, and reveal'd its date
To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
William Cowper
#27. As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
Marv Levy
#28. We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live
Rachele Baker
#29. We always will have some differences but still we could be happy and peaceful if we learn to love each other.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Our feelings are formations, impermanent and without substance. We learn not to identify with ourselves with our feelings, not to consider them as a self, not to seek refuge in them, not to die because of them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#31. Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.
Norman Vincent Peale
#32. We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
Bernard Malamud
#33. In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.
Eustace Conway
#34. We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
Elias Hicks
#35. THE MONASTERY IS A SCHOOL - A SCHOOL IN WHICH WE learn from God how to be happy.
Thomas Merton
#36. We learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.
Brenda Shoshanna
#37. No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.
Ace Antonio Hall
#38. When we are no longer motivated by fear, we understand that every moment is perfect in its own way. We no longer dread what we can't control; we learn to respect the wisdom of Spirit rather than impose our will on situations. This is the path of genuine power.
Alberto Villoldo
#39. The Bible is really not a religious book but a divine manual written by the manufacturer of humanity by which the product man is supposed to live. If we learn those principles and obey them, then we find that the process of failure to success becomes more inevitability than experiment.
Myles Munroe
#40. True worship comes when we learn to close our eyes and focus only on Him.
Joel Balin
#41. From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.
Jim Butcher
#43. We earn the respect of our peers by laboring to quell our critics' justified disapproval. We earn self-respectability by schooling the wisdom to ignore unfair condemnation. We learn goodness by witnessing other person's lives and by performing unsolicited acts of kindnesses.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#44. Mistakes are growth, and we learn not to do it again. But it doesn't make you a terrible person. That's important to me.
Paula Danziger
#45. Just as we have been given hope, we carry that hope; and for as long as we carry that hope, we learn to spread hope; and as we spread hope, lives are inevitably changed, and saved. What beautiful meaning hope gives to life!
Kcat Yarza
#46. We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
Gore Vidal
#47. In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
Frederick Lenz
#48. We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections
Daniel Goleman
#49. We shall never have a science of economics unless we learn to discern the operation of law even among the most perplexing complications and apparent interruptions.
William Stanley Jevons
#50. That is why every brother and sister will react differently according to how they learn to defend themselves and adapt to different circumstances. When our parents are constantly fighting, when there is disharmony, disrespect, and lies, we learn the emotional way of being like them.
Miguel Ruiz
#51. We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.
Alain De Botton
#53. When we learn the wrong lessons of history, evil is reinforced rather than restrained- particularly when we use the injuries of the past to serve the interests of the future and ignore the injustices of the present.
Os Guinness
#54. The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go.
Chris Matakas
#55. I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.
Nancy B. Brewer
#56. Compassion suits our physical condition, whereas anger, fear and distrust are harmful to our well-being. Therefore, just as we learn the importance of physical hygiene to physical health, to ensure healthy minds, we need to learn some kind of emotional hygiene.
Dalai Lama
#57. With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.
Ben Carson
#58. I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them ... we don't absorb multiplication tables.
William Alexander Percy
#59. When will we learn we are Human first, and that all other names are merely changes of clothing?
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
#60. Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.
Muriel Barbery
#61. We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.
Giulio Andreotti
#62. Do what we will, we are alone. The sooner we learn that, the better; and the more we are fit to be alone with ourselves, the more we are respectful to the individuality of others, and therefore the more we are fit to associate with our kind. This was a paradox she would have to learn for ourselves.
Howard Spring
#63. When we're down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we're made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.
Charles Martin
#66. The time we spend talking about Jiu Jitsu is time not spent practicing Jiu Jitsu. This is a necessary aspect of study, but it is one we mustn't lose ourselves in; we learn best by doing.
Chris Matakas
#67. Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?
Zach Braff
#68. People are afraid of change. Change is inevitable to life. Change actually has the mask of pushing us out of comfort zone. Every time we learn, go through life experiences our perception/Emotional chemistry is changing. Embrace change because we are becoming a more polished version of ourselves.
Matthew Donnelly
#69. We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not.
Barack Obama
#70. Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!
John Hagee
#71. When we learn to focus on love, grace, and gratitude, life is really quite lovely.
Isha Judd
#72. The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
Karl Popper
#73. We learn that there are in creation, Beings - perhaps very numerous - both good and evil.
Richard Whatley
#74. We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible.
Edsger Dijkstra
#75. You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there You don't know what the baby is going to become. Therefore, you wait and take good care of it until it becomes what it will.
Milton H. Erickson
#76. I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to surrender to a stone, a flower, to a man, to a woman, or a river, it becomes a door to the Whole.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#77. The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business.
Ron Wyden
#78. For we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude
it's the chance to paint.
Richard Paul Evans
#79. The lessons we learn in sadness and from loss are those that abide. Sorrow clarifies the mind, steadies it, and forces it to weigh things correctly. The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth.
Theodore T. Munger
#80. There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.
Woody Hayes
#81. The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.
Leonard Sweet
#83. The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.
Jeanette Winterson
#84. can replace being in the same space. That's exactly why we need to keep creating the temporary worlds of meetings, small and large, on campuses and everywhere else. In them, we discover we're not alone, we learn from one another, and so we keep going toward shared goals.
Gloria Steinem
#85. By wit we search divine aspect above,
By wit we learn what secrets science yields,
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd,
By wit we govern all our actions;
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought,
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought.
Robert Greene
#86. We fail; we learn. Unless we fail to learn.
Kresley Cole
#87. None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.
Dan Harmon
#89. What we learn through failure becomes a precious part of us, strengthening us in everything we do. So let the tough things make you tougher.
Soichiro Honda
#90. Life is like that I thought, as I turned the corner to my building. Freedom has its danger as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off will be.
Alice Steinbach
#91. We learn that the more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.
Brendon Burchard
#92. When we learn to love unconditionally we will find endless happiness and infinite peace.
Debasish Mridha
#93. The three most important lessons I have learned in my life: First, no-thing is more valuable or important in life than being loved and loving others. Second, the lessons in life never end and it's up to us whether or not we learn from them. Third, life goes on ...
James A. Murphy
#94. When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
Henri Nouwen
#95. In God's school we learn through the heart rather than through the head, and by faith rather than logic.
Samuel Logan Brengle
#96. We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Sharon Salzberg
#97. The consciousness of an embryo is the universal consciousness. What we learn after birth is awareness and egocentric consciousness that we call the mind. Everyday we learn to conform to the beauty, tragedy, and adversity of this world and that forms our judgmental mind.
Debasish Mridha
#98. When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
Amy Vanderbilt
#99. Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong.
Dean Koontz
#100. It is an ancient truism that we learn to do by doing.
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