#learns

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#generation #god #knows #learns #nobody

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

#his #how #improvement #invention #learns

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#firmly #highest #learns #lesson #progress

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. ↗

— Max Muller

#child #learns #soon #strangers

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. ↗

— Jean Kerr

#becomes #being #eventually #hypocritical #learns

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. ↗

— P. L. Travers

#book #half #his #learns #only

One learns to itch where one can scratch. ↗

— Scott Reed

#learns #scratch #where

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

#democracy #democratic #develop #every #homeland