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Learning Quotes


"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."


"I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop."


"Life gives us experiences, we are learners."


"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."


"Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world."


"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."



"Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them."


"Knowledge is just a foundation. The whole point of a foundation is to build on it."


"The most effective way of learning is by observation and emulation."


"Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime."


"Learn to let urgency go. Nothing is urgent. Stress is the product of uncertainty and urgency of life."


"Our thoughts are great place of voyage."


"Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect."


"Knowledge cannot be maintained without character."


"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."


"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."


"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."


"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."


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


"A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a good learner. And a good learner is definitely a good listener. A good listener is always looking to what the heart speaks. A spoken heart talks directly to a silent soul. And a silent soul is most of the time in pace with a peaceful thought. A peaceful thought is also a good writer..."


"God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites."


"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."


"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."


"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."


"There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter."
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