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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. -- Jonathan Swift
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. -- Flora Lewis
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too. -- Lady Gregory
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words. -- Sutton Foster
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. -- Alice Miller
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. -- Michel de Montaigne
I remember learning new words, trying to figure out what common things like cider, finding myself upset that my parents couldn't help me understand this new culture, that it was up to me to interpret for them as well as myself. -- An Na
As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. -- Chris Ware
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well! -- Patricia Polacco
The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process. -- Robyn Davidson
In other words, with games, learning is the drug. -- Raph Koster
I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items. -- Emo Philips
I'm learning all the right vocabulary words - 'You're right, I'm wrong.' -- George Stephanopoulos
The learning is the heavy lifting. You need to get the words into your brain. -- Tom Hiddleston
Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic. -- Steven Furtick
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. -- John Green
Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first. -- Timothy Keller
With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see. -- Robin Wall Kimmerer
I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places. -- Marc Almond
The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment. -- Roy Peter Clark
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I am learning by the week, but my poesy is still not my own. New rhyme, new me me me in words. I am not all this carven rhetoric. -- Allen Ginsberg

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