Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Heisenberg

The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent.

W. H. Auden

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

William Cobbett

Learning consists of ideas, and not of the noise that is made by the mouth.

Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Roger Moore

I would love to be remembered as one of the greatest Lears or Hamlets.

Roger Waters

I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.

Zhuangzi

It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding.

William Golding

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

Walter Lippmann

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Voltaire

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

William Strunk, Jr.

Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.

William Butler Yeats

O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

Walter Savage Landor

I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.

Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Richie Ashburn

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

Samuel Johnson

Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Samuel Johnson

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

W. Somerset Maugham

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

Zig Ziglar

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

Zig Ziglar

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.

Physically, he's capable. Now, he's got to learn our system.

Really, they should go back to school and learn something new and use it.

Daniel Stewart

Regardless of what party you are, you have to learn how to play in the same sandbox because nothing will kill redevelopment quicker than combative local politics,

In two months, I think I've had enough time to learn them.

If you take a loss, you've just got to learn from it and move on. A lot of these teams would be able to make the playoffs if they were playing in a different conference.

If you stay in this world, you will never learn another one.

Mark McGwire

In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'

If you had all success and no failures, you probably wouldn't learn as much.

If you're not (scared), something's wrong with you. You learn to live with it.

If you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, why do some people have more than one child.

If you learn a trade, they can never take that away from you.

In the first year, we learned how many waterfowl we have on the South Platte River and how they've been using it.

I like this better than the classroom. You learn a lot more than through writing papers.