#lear

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#being #between #clear #considering #deficiency

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#centuries #democracy #did #during #ideas

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#gone #house #land #learning #most

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them. ↗

— Donald Davis

#just #learn #stories #them

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#learn #london #paris #poise #rivals

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#defy #fear #how #human #hunger

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#america #american #because #buy #countries

What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring. ↗

— Don Shula

#also #another #away #better #enough

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me. ↗

— Jada Pinkett Smith

#could #grew #help #i #learned

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really. ↗

— Janet Suzman

#everything #got #just #learn #mistake