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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. - John Dewey Quotes
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. - Jean Kerr Quotes
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. - Aldous Huxley Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. - Booker T Washington Quotes
Im not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinseys perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip. - Sue Grafton Quotes
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 Quotes
Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. - Max Muller Quotes
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. - Joseph Brodsky Quotes
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. - Oscar Wilde Quotes
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. - Laurence Sterne Quotes
A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Dave Meurer Quotes
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. - Saul Alinsky Quotes
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 mans training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. - Thomas H Huxley Quotes
Every German child learns to speak English in school. - Cornelia Funke Quotes
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. - Robert Browning Quotes
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 the tricks and has nothing to say. - Raymond Chandler Quotes
Its not surprising that a composer learns in detail an instrument. Thats not surprising. That should be the first thing a composer does. - Marc Ribot Quotes
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. - Andrea Dworkin Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. - Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
One learns in life to keep silent and draw ones own confusions. - Cornelia Otis Skinner Quotes
If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Tom Wolfe Quotes
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. - Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. - Ayn Rand Quotes
Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all. - Artur Rodzinski Quotes
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. - Walter Lippmann Quotes
The past has infinite value if one learns from it. - Ken Hensley Quotes
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