#earns

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#forget #learns #neither #orthodoxy #thought

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#bed #child #corrupting #corruption #father

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. ↗

— Robert Browning

#before #learns #old #perhaps #rather

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#art #away #craft #desire #end

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. ↗

— Prince Charles

#learned #learns #monkey #parents #watching

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#canal #feats #his #learns #literary

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. ↗

— Frank Stella

#imitating #learns #looking #other #painters

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#been #body #centre #god #join

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#believe #cruelty #fact #human #human suffering