Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.[Dudley Malone] Quote:If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?[Dave Barry] Quote:No one can earn a million dollars honestly.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.[Christopher Morley] Quote:There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.[Christopher Morley] Quote:I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.[Robert Frost] Quote:In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.[Robert Frost] Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[Dave Barry] Quote:When you get right down to it, the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean, if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash, they wouldn't get on it in the first place, let alone learn how to get an adequate oxygen supply on the way down.[Dave Barry] Quote:Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.[Edmund Burke] Quote:A penny saved is a penny earned.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.[Colin Powell] Quote:Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.[Mark Twain] Quote:Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.[Confucius] Quote:He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.[Confucius] Quote:The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.[David Hume] Quote:Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.[Borje Vahamaki] Quote:The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.[Booker T. Washington] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Failure is success if we learn from it.[Malcolm Forbes] Quote:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.[Albert Einstein] Quote:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?[Clarence Darrow] Quote:All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.[Albert Camus] Quote:Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.[Leon Trotsky] Quote:The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.[John Powell] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] Quote:The wisest mind has something yet to learn. [George Santayana] Quote:The wisest mind has something yet to learn. [George Santayana] Quote:I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. [Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. [Abigail Adams] Quote:Much learning does not teach understanding. [Heraclitus] Quote:Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. [Al Franken] Quote:Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide] Quote:Don't look for more honor than your learning merits. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! <br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it <br> That we can die but once to serve our country! [Joseph Addison] Quote:Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. [B. F. Skinner] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. [Confucius] Quote:What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. [Epictetus] Quote:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote: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] Quote:Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. [Euripides] Quote:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. [Doris Lessing] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. [Lord Chesterfield] Definitions of: earnDefinition: See Ern, n.Definition: To grieve. Definition: To curdle, as milk. |
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