W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.”
“We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.”
“We learn from the pages of history who we are and who we have been. We learn from our greatness and our darkness. We cannot predict the future, but studying where we've been helps us better understand where we are.”
Source: Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning
“We learn from the things we suffer.”
“We learn from tragedy. Slowly.”
Source: The Truth About Love
“We learn from traveling that it makes a huge difference to simply acknowledge and greet each other; to ask whenever possible or appropriate, whether someone is alright; and most importantly to foil the plans and intentions of fear and warmongers using every medium and platform to get us to distrust, hate, and be afraid of each other, or to beware of strangers."
[From “Can We Travel Without Being Tourists?” published on CounterPunch on March 15, 2024]”
“We learn from trials and errors.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.”
Source: Modernity on Endless Trial
“We learn how to disguise our differentness as we grow up. [She] doesn't know how to do that yet.”
Source: The Shipping News
“We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.”
“We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.”
“We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life.”
“We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.”
“We learn invaluable life lessons from people whom exhibit courage and grace under extraordinary circumstances.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“We learn little from victory, much from defeat.”
“We learn many virtues in our Christian families. Above all, we learn to love, asking nothing in return.”
“We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.”
“We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.”
“We learn more about the character of people on one off day, than on all their best days put together.”
“We learn more by being wrong than by being right.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
Source: The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain
“We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.”
“We learn more in crisis than in comfort.”
“We learn more when we are compelled to invent.”
“We learn more when we hate than when we love, because hate is eternally awake, but love is everlastingly asleep.”
“We learn most not from all of the things that go right. We learn most when everything goes wrong.”
“We learn most readily, most naturally, most effectively, when we start with the big picture - precisely when the basics don't come first.”
Source: The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and
“We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.”
“We learn not for life but for the debating-room.”
“We learn not in the school, but in life.”
“We learn nothing by being right.”
Source: Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms
“We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.”
“We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.”
“We learn of great things by little experiences.”
Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars
“We learn, often through painful self-discipline and self-cauterization, those qualities which are supposed to be 'innate' in us: patience, self-sacrifice, the willingness to repeat endlessly the small, routine chores of socializing a human being.”
Source: Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
“We learn old lessons or history teaches them again, our choice on what we prefer.”
“We learn only to ask more questions.”
Source: Ringworld Engineers
“We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Life Gift
“We learn our first lessons about money as children, and these shape much of our ideas about it. We learn these lessons from our parents, but from others also. But I feel as if I have always been taught about money by everyone, every day of my life a lesson, whether I want it or not, in what money is and does.”
Source: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“We learn our lessons through the broken shards we pick up, piece by piece, later, when everything is over and apologies are realized too late.”
Source: Karinderya Love Songs
“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”
“We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.”
“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”
“We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more”
Source: Axiomatic
“We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.”
“We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.”
Source: Golf, It's Just a Game: The Best Quotes & Cartoons About Golf
“We learn
that all life
is scarce yet abundant.
Profane yet
sacred.
Loving
yet hateful.
Enlightened
yet obscured.
Isolated yet
collective.
That life is
somehow derived from love.”
Source: dead, but dreaming
“We learn that Comrade [President of South Africa Nelson] Mandela has announced in a speech that he hopes for a bright future in South Africa for ‘liberty’ and ‘equality.’ Anyone who has thought about it realizes that liberty and equality are antithetical concepts. You can have one, or you can have the other, but you certainly cannot have both. As to that, either concept is a rather futile goal. Equality is biologically impossible, and liberty is only obtainable in homogeneous populations very thinly spread.”