Learned Quotes

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 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.

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

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

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko showing me that I was still possessed. I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling. I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Union in privacy (with one's wife); boldness; storing away useful items; watchfulness; and not easily trusting others; these five things are to be learned from a crow.

Although an ass is tired, he continues to carry his burden; he is unmindful of cold and heat; and he is always contented; these three things should be learned from the ass.

The learned are envied by the foolish; rich men by the poor; chaste women by adulteresses; and beautiful ladies by ugly ones.