Quotes About Learned

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. The spiritual journey is the relinquishment, or unlearning, of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.

I was a fool. I thought you learned the old ways by forgetting the new.

The sense of form in New Mexico is for me one of the profoundest, most original, and most beautiful I have personally experienced. It must be 'learned.' . . . It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light.

It was from Buber's other writings that I learned what could also be found in I and Thou: the central commandment to make the secular sacred.

If it were an art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.

Claudius knew a good deal about Etruscan history. Among his many learned researches he had written a twenty-volume study of the Etruscans, in Greek, as well as compiling an Etruscan dictionary.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

The next morning Gulliver brought his guitar downstairs and played a bit for us. He had learned an old piece of music by a band known as Nirvana called "All Apologies.

She was clearly an intellectual, but a far from purely academic one.

This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

In the winter of 1985 I learned from Russian friends a perfect saying to describe the system: "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay.

The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be redeemed by the brush of the wing of the great bird of spirit.

This book is meant to be a handy reference guide to many of the powerful search features available on Google. Since I consider myself to be a power searcher, I was surprised that I learned some new (and extremely helpful) things while researching this book.

You take pains for me which are unnecessary; learned conversations are not at all in my way: I love to live at ease; and, in whatever is said, one must take too much trouble to become clever; it is an ambition which does not at all enter my mind. I find myself very well, mother, in being stupid; and I prefer having nothing but common-place talk to tormenting myself to say fine words.

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.

Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

Moskowitz defined chronic pain as "learned pain." Chronic pain not only indicates illness; it is itself an illness. The body's alarm system is stuck in the "on" position, because the person has been unable to remedy the cause of an acute pain, and the central nervous system has become damaged.

Modesty was a luxury I learned to do without.

These ancient ambiguities would be a field for learned conjecture merely, were it not for the bitter rivalries that haunted them in later times and haunt them still.

learned the sordid inner workings of the royal court in Modeg from a . . . courtesan. As my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

children who themselves have learned the art of manipulation and control, and you have the setup for chaos.

Heldmann (1990) writes that most people respond to criticism with behavior they learned in childhood. She calls this behavior "The Four Don'ts": defend, deny, counterattack, and withdraw.