Learned Quotes

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.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.

I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.

In writing songs I've learned as much from Cézanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.