Top 520 Learned Quotes

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn’t know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to articulate your life, your present world or your possibilities for the future.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it’s because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

We’ve learned to embrace our own physical shadows by leaning on each other and Once to find motivation and energy to keep our heads up and stay healthy.

A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

Well, I couldn’t speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.

I’ve learned to control my anxiety.

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn’t end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

What could I have possibly learned except the really most important thing, which is that I did not want to work at the ‘New York Times’? Beyond that, I learned how a newspaper works.

Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I’ve applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.

One thing I learned is that the park by the river in a recent story, ‘Getting Closer,’ is the same park by the river that appears for a moment near the end of ‘The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad,’ a story first published 23 years earlier. This echo at first irritated me, then pleased me deeply.

I’ve learned that you have to make careful choices because everything has an impact. I’ve also learned that you can’t please everyone in life, so please yourself and figure out what really matters.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

I’ve had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me… I learned my lesson.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught.

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that’s how I learned to play the guitar.

Happiness is fleeting – I think that’s the main lesson I have learned.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

I’ve learned the lesson that when you’re in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you’re in a bad situation and it seems like it’s the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it’s not.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

When I was growing up, I didn’t realize that the idiosyncrasies of my mother’s character had something to do with our culture. After growing up and reflecting and making more Asian-American friends, I learned that a lot this is something a lot of people grow up with.

The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That’s one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

I think it’s easiest to teach by example. My dad didn’t tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings – like a short fuse – but I’ve learned you can’t come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

If Americans knew how to deal with other people, they could bring peace to the world. Alas, they have not learned enough yet. The true American feels that he is 100 percent welcome anywhere he goes.

I’m still growing, still learning. I’m still open and vulnerable enough to know there’s much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don’t reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all.

We’re all our own worst critics and so hard on ourselves, but for me, my biggest insecurity is my arms. I just hate the tops of them. I work out and they still never look good enough for me. So, over the years I’ve learned to dress to make myself feel better.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

There’s plenty of people who’ve never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

If I’ve learned anything in this business, it’s that you have to be fearless.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

I didn’t deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn’t deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don’t deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.

I’ve always learned a lot, I’ve always played different roles, and I will continue to do so.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

We’ve learned that when a consumer moves from a relationship rooted in ‘me’ to one powered by ‘we,’ a new world of buying and advocacy opens up for a brand.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.

Over the years, I’ve learned that you can have fun with the fabrics and other elements, but if it’s not tailored right, you’ll blow it.

I’ve learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.

I try to watch a movie a day, if not more, and through movies, I learned about so many different political themes I hadn’t been interested in and cultural things I hadn’t been aware of and economic factors I hadn’t thought about.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

I grew up speaking Korean, but my dad spoke English very well. I learned a lot of how to speak English by watching television.

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don’t know anything you don’t need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

I’ve learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.