One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite. - Jean Kerr
A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes. - Debasish Mridha
Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness. - Adam Kovacevic
One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay. - Christopher Buehlman
some of the first words a child learns are brand names, because they don’t have to sound them out. It becomes part of your environmental vocabulary [Whitney Curry Wimbish & , "The Binary Companion," LA Review of Books, January 22, 2015]. - Sarah Gerard
For Parents: Never blame or scold a child for their first mistake after all family is the first school from where a child learns. - Neeraj Bhanot
He who laughs most, learns best - John Cleese
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling. - Dallas Willard
A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ... - C.J. Heck
History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little. - Orrin Woodward
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne - D.J. MacHale
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed. - Robert Heinlein
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad. - Carlos Castaneda
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning. - Mollie Marti
It's essential to tailor rehab to what impassions someone. The brain gradually learns by riveting its attention-through endless repetitions. - Diane Ackerman
If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you. - Bernard Malamud
When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred. - Masashi Kishimoto
One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence. - Robertson Davies
In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist man’s next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, his own god of destiny, and thus the student of his own evolving and ever uncertain truth. - Duane Hewitt
One learns by doing, not by learning to do. - Marty Rubin
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut
Learns a lot and lots more to learn. - Abhishek Kumar Singh
What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge. - vivek sahni
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T. Washington
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Kurt Vonnegut
It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. - Anatole France
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. - Benjamin Franklin
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns. - Rainer Maria Rilke
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. - Mark Twain
He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
The moon seems unawareof night's dark hittingon the damp warm rain misguiding owl's spitting A thunder light of loveraising hearts beatingwhile weather learns morefrom rain lovers meeting - Munia Khan
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all of the tricks and has nothing to say. - Raymond Chandler
In school one learns to ask stupid questions of life. - Marty Rubin
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak. - Zhuangzi
I personally believe that one learns to write by writing. - Jack Jordan
A person who faces unique miseries learns much. All time transports him rich insights. - Darmie Orem
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. - Tennessee Williams
For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire. - Christmas Humphreys
One piece of wisdom a writer quickly learns ~ typos keep you humble. - E.A. Bucchianeri
The rough must always accompany the smooth. Without one or the other one learns nothing about oneself. - Solange nicole
He who teaches children learns more than they do. - German Proverb
A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Dave Meurer
The warrior learns of the spiritual realm by dwelling on the cutting edge of the sword, standing at the edge of the fire pit, venturing right up to the edge of starvation if necessary. Vibrant and intense living is the warrior's form of worship. - Stephen K. Hayes
The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns the moves and twirls by osmosis and observation. - Maya Angelou
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey
Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. - J. Nozipo Maraire
Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it. - Taylor Mali
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. - Pearl S. Buck
Everybody learns from their own mistakes.The wise learn from mistakes others make. - Manoj Vaz
If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism. - John Whitehead
Grandma Harken was sharpening her garden shears. Her hands slowed on the file and she said finally, He’ll get in trouble and he’ll figure it out. Best to do it without us standing over him. It’s the only way anybody ever learns to clean up after themselves. - Ursula Vernon
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. - Peter F. Drucker
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin
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. - Laura Bush
An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent. - Jim George
One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her- is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil? - Gregory Maguire
A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off - Archibald MacLeish
One learns wisdom from sorrow, but pleasure is one of the fruits of wisdom. - Matshona Dhliwayo