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Learning Quotes
"Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day."
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"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 be the case, 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."
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"Life corrects the errors of logic."
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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
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"A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes."
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"We all act as independent learners in charge of designing our autodidactic curricula. Reading the books written by the prophetic genius of history including the literary masterpieces and philosophical treatises awakens the mind. Reading can act as a gateway drug leading to writing and expansion of a personal state of conscious awareness."
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"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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"The best way to learn is through direct experience."
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"Reading is an activity of civilized beings."
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"A wise man is a student though he is a teacher."
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"Book knowledge is not enough. Experiential knowledge is essential for success in life."
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"In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. 'Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the 'Gnani's' grace."
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"Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness."
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"What is worth to know,can only be experienced."
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"We learn better when learning is a game."
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"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."
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"Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime."
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"I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late."
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"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."
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"You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life."
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"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."
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"There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you."
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"Others have seen and experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly, and their experiences serve as models you can learn from."
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"I was never punished for my ignorance, I was punished by my ignorance."
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"Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here."
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"Your experiences are often in proportion to the questions you ask."
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"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."
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