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I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Learn to speak what you feel, and act what you speak.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

We must learn, and especially we Germans, that resistance is not only possible and allowed in dictatorships. There is resistance that man must perform every day.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Learn the meaning of what you are saying before you speak.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”

Learn all there is to learn, and then choose your own path.

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. Walking is the best medicine.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Our Democracy destroys itself because it has abused the right to freedom and equality, because has learned the citizens to consider the insolence as right, illegality as freedom, the impudence of speech as equality and anarchy as bliss.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. Oh, the passion for research and the joy of discovery!

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.

I am still learning.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”

The child who has never learned to work by himself, to set goals for his own acts, or to be the master of his own force of will is recognizable in the adult who lets others guide his will and feels a constant need for approval of others.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

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.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One should learn even from one's enemies.

You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

I do not think you learn wisdom just like that, by reading Thucydides and becoming reasonable, but I do believe that if young people came into contact with that period of reflection which is different from our time, but which nevertheless has elements in common, we would think better, in a more measured, more reasonable and more tolerant fashion.

Ancient Greece offers us a language which I will say is ecumenical. Everyone should learn Greek, because the Greek language helps us first and foremost to understand our own language.

Learning to think, to be precise, to weigh your words, to hear each other, is to be able to communicate and is the only means to stop the scary violence that is growing around us.

have learned from those who know how to preserve the tradition of music. I play music the way it used to be played.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

The music I have learned and want to offer is like worship to God. It is absolutely like a prayer.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

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

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Always desire to learn something useful.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.

“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”