Things Learned Quotes:

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Careers, Chances In Life, Inspirational Career

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

The more you read, the more things you will know.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Pain, Heart, People, Touch Someone, Make The Right Decision

Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.

- Charles Spurgeon

source: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “The Saint and His Saviour: Or, The Progress of the Soul in the Knowledge of Jesus”, p.323

topic: Prosperous, Things Learned

What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

- Robert Browning

topic: Art, Practice, Perfection, Things Learned

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

- Hugh Howey

source: Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mind, Stones, Littles, Things Learned

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

- Frida Kahlo

topic: Swim, Sorrow, Drank, Things Learned

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

- Terry Goodkind

source: Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.119, Head of Zeus

topic: Emotion, Ends, Results, Things Learned

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

- Francis Bacon

source: "New Method, Book I (Aphorism 43)". Book by Francis Bacon, 1620.

topic: Learning, Mean, Men, Things Learned