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Learning Quotes


"To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about."



"You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life."



"Explain it to me."But I couldn't. I'd had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood., If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right."


"A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle..."


"Orfanages r fule of little misstakes, just like my Englich."


"To teach, learn. To learn, teach."


"In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?"


"Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world."


"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."


"The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion."


"I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today via the internet. I had to learn everything the hard way. And I had to become a scientist the old-fashioned way, which is, not through academia, but through trial and error. And my hardship opened up unforeseen gateways of perception in my mind. And through these gateways, today the whole world is able to see its inner self."


"When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward."


"When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh."


"All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture."


"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."


"Knowledge is an intellectual art. Wisdom is a spiritual discipline."


"Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from."


"What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is not ours. From ourselves comes only that which we drag forth from the obscurity which lies within us, that which to others is unknown."


"There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients."


"In my work, I try to create situations in which we take ideas, information, experiences and qualities to a pragmatic arena. Then within those, to relearn or experiment with how we respond to internal and external variables. There's no point to understanding something but remaining incapable of applying it. I think real knowledge and understanding is experiential, and the easiest way to access those is through our physical being."


"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."


"If you define your life by what you learn only, you will never leave a great footprints on earth. Your life must not only be defined by what you do with what you learn but also the great distinctive exploitations you make with the least things you learn."


"Teaching others, he corrected himself."


"Sometimes we learn the lessons of life through pain, melancholy and the vicissitude of life and sometimes we learn the lessons of life through joy and comfort. Whatever the case may be, the most important thing is the great lesson we learn out of the lessons life teaches us. If you fail to learn the lessons greatly, life will teach you a great lesson."


"The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it."


"I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid and I discovered that the letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been. We don't have the words for it, since we hadn't yet learned the words. It must have been astonishing, to be given the key to the kingdom and see it turn in our hands so easily."


"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."


"An' I learned about women from 'er."
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