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Learning Quotes
"Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity."
"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."
"Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from."
"I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me."
"I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good t."
"I was never punished for my ignorance, I was punished by my ignorance."
"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."
"The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically, politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first."
"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."
"Attend seminars, forums, conferences, summits and sessions where interesting topics about dream fulfillment and personal branding are prioritized themes and topics. Get exposed to better ways of doing things."
"But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."
"Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned."
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
"Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition."
"When you decide not to discipline yourself to seek for knowledge in any area, God sees it as the rejection of knowledge."
"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."
"When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice."
"There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student."
"Asking questions is an opportunity for creativity and personal expression, both for the person asking and the person answering."
"Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!"
"There exist no new mistakes anywhere. The same mistakes people committed are the same mistakes people are committing and the same mistakes shall people commit."
"Thus the struggle between rule and spirit repeats itself year after year from school to school. The authorities go to infinite pains to nip the few profound or more valuable intellects in the bud. And time and again the ones who are detested by their teachers are frequently punished, the runaways and those expelled, are the ones who afterwards add to society's treasure. But some - and who knows how many? - waste away quiet obstinacy and finally go under."
"Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects."
"The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear."
"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."
"Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself."
"The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance."
"He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller in unknown countries and as he pushed forward the enterprise fascinated him; he read emotionally, as other men read pure literature, and his heart leaped as he discovered in noble words what himself had obscurely felt."
"Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects."
"As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch."
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