Learns Quotes

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

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.

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

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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.

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

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.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

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.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

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.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

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.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

The only way a ventriloquist speaks differently is that he forgoes using his or her lips, and learns to reproduce sounds using the tongue, upper palate, and teeth only. Those 'difficult' letters are B, F, M, P, V, W, and Y.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year.