„For this dead Venice once taught us to be merchants, sailors and gentlemen; and this dying England taught the Americans all they have of speech, or thought, hitherto. What thoughts they have not learned from England are foolish thoughts; what words they have not learned from England, unseemly words; the vile among them not being able even to be humorous parrots, but only obscene mocking birds.“

— John Ruskin

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„Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.“
— Confucius
„We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only — which is a very great mistake.“
— Walt Whitman
„Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.“
— Jodi Picoult
„I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.“
— Terry Pratchett
„The only hidden meaning of thingsIs that they have no hidden meaning.It's the strangest thing of all,Stranger than all poets' dreamsAnd all philosophers' thoughts,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there's nothing to understand.Yes, this is what my senses learned on their own:Things have no meaning: they have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.“
— Cassandra Clare
„By far the most vital lesson I have ever learned is the importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are. Our thoughts make us what we are.“
— Dale Carnegie