L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Learning, understanding, and wisdom are everything... The purpose for the Gift of this Life experience is for each of us to have increase in the areas of ALL three.”
“Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure”
Source: The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens
“Learning was like playing”
Source: Pachinko
“Learning was never structured for me. I started playing when I was two. I would go to the gym with my dad who played regularly. I 'd get on the court and play when he would go for a drink of water or something. When I was four they shaved down the grip on a racquet so I could hold it. I can't even tell you why I loved being on the court, I just knew I enjoyed it. It was always about sports for me.”
“Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?”
Source: The Richest Man in Babylon
“Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light?”
Source: The Waterfall
“Learning what everyone else does, thus by definition of value, the least scarce knowledge is therefore the least valuable.”
Source: sciVive
“Learning what it is to be among other human beings includes learning that they can be different from us as well as similar. We imagine what it would be like to experience the world differently from their locations, nor our own. We might still use analogies to understand others, but analogies point to similarities that co-exist with differences. Similar in some respects is consistent with different in other respects.”
“Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.”
Source: Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life
“Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal, or claim something is the fruit of their labors when it really is someone else's.”
“Learning what to hold on to and what to release is one of life’s most delicate and ongoing lessons. ... Letting go is not about erasing what has mattered. It is about acknowledging that everything has its time. Some relationships teach us lessons and then gently fade. ... To recognise that something no longer fits is not a betrayal; it is a recognition of change”
“Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.”
“Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.”
“Learning when 'enough is enough' is the discipline of a lifetime.”
“Learning who you are is what you're here to do.”
Source: Wonder
“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”
“Learning without implementation is arrogance.”
“Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.”
“Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!”
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Source: Confucian Analects
“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“Learning without thought is labour lost.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.”
Source: Moses: Man of the Mountain
“Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.”
“Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.”
Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
“Learning, like love, death and eating, are fundamental human activities. It's at the core of human existence and its character has a resilience of continuity that is part of what makes up human nature. That is not fundamentally going to change.”
“Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.”
Source: The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations
“Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
“Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.”
Source: Addison's Essays
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Learning, pondering, searching, and memorizing scriptures is like filling a filing cabinet with friends, values, and truths that can be called upon anytime, anywhere in the world.”
“Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents, responsible for destroying this country, and finally aiming at building a just, kind and beautiful nation called 'Indonesia'. This is much better and glorious than sitting in Starbucks, staring like idiots at uniformed smart phones, and basically killing ones life... and the lives of others... for nothing.”
“Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost.”
“Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.”
“Learning, without any opportunities to share what we've learned, is a little like cooking for ourselves; we do it, but we probably won't do it as well.”
Source: Results: the key to continuous school improvement
“Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.”
“Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.”
“Learns a lot and lots more to learn.”
“Learnt a lot like timing, voice modulation from Mohanlal sir. He is perfect in everything.”
“Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.”
“LEASE
Life Ends And Session Expires
Kamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also.”
“Least at thine own things laugh.”
“Least capable people are most selfish.”
Source: The Divine Refugee
“Least doers are the greatest boasters.”
“Least he's committed," I offered. "Or needs to be.”
Source: Death and the Girl Next Door
“Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.”
“Least said is soon disavowed.”
“Least said, soonest mended”
Source: David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Least thing we can do is to wake up in the morning and protect the good things that were. The past deserves it.”
Source: The Goodbye Song