Learn

Famous quotes containing the word learn:

    Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
    Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    Although there are not real winners or losers, in games of pretending children soon learn that the game ends when mutuality ends.
    Joanne E. Oppenheim (20th century)

    There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)