Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

The first thing was, I learned to forgive myself. Then, I told myself, 'Go ahead and do whatever you want, it's okay by me.'

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Learning occurs in the mind, independent of time and place.

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.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us--and those around us -- more effectively. Look for the learning.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the things 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 person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learns thoroughly.

Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.

The system of book-keeping by double entry is, perhaps, the most beautiful one in the wide domain of literature or science. Were it less common, it would be the admiration of the learned world.

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

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

Learning is a livelihood.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

How inimitably graceful children are in general before they learn to dance!

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Little Girl: Fortune of Wheel! Mom: No, that's Wheel of Fortune, where you learned to spell.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Failure is a success if we learn from it.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn John Cotton Dana

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

In that instant he learned what jealousy was. He wanted to know the name of every other man she had ever looked at, whether they had touched her- and most especially where to find these men so that he could kill them.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it's sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful?

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

I am convinced that one of the logical reasons why ineffective and unmotivated learning so frequently occurs is because of the lack of motivation planning on the part of many instructors.. I contend that for an adult to learn and want to learn (motivated learning), motivation planning is necessary. Blaming the learners for being unresponsive to instruction that is actually poorly designed or implemented in terms of its motivational influence is a common reaction among many instructors.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

It is good to live and learn.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Your fortune stateth: You teach best what you most need to learn.

Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.