Learned Quotes

For myself I shall find as much pleasure in a positive destruction of my own ideology, as in a rational disagreement on a topic, which, notwithstanding many learned disquisitions is likely to remain controversial forever.

How little Christianity cultivates the sense of honesty can be inferred from the character of the writings of its learned men. They set out their conjectures as audaciously as if they were dogmas, and are but seldom at a disadvantage in regard to the interpretation of Scripture.

Love, too, has to be learned.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law to our to-day.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that "The only way to have a friend is to be one."

And so today, in this year of war, 1945, we have learned lessons - at a fearful cost - and we shall profit by them.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

He [Bo Diddley] was a wonderful, original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on The Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him. We will never see his like again.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

I learned from you that I do not crumble. I learned that strength is something you choose.

The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what.