Quotes About Learning

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow. This itself is an act of love.

As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.

One foundation of loving relationships is curiosity, keeping open to the idea that we have much to learn even about those we have been close to for decades.

When we don't allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.

History belongs in the past; but understanding it is the duty of the present.

I do not look to history to absolve my country of the need to do things right today. I seek to understand the wrongs of yesterday, both to grasp what has brought us to our present reality and to understand the past for itself.

History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present

Great discoveries, Ganapathi, are often the result of making the wrong mistake at the right time. Ask Columbus.

One of the lessons you learn from history is that history sometimes teaches the wrong lessons.

But in looking to understand the forces that have made us and nearly unmade us, and in hoping to recognize possible future sources of conflict in the new millennium, we have to realize that sometimes the best crystal ball is a rear-view mirror.

This book has no pretensions to infallibility, let alone to omniscience.

In looking to understand the forces that have made us and nearly unmade us, and in hoping to recognize possible future sources of conflict in the new millennium, we have to realize that sometimes the best crystal ball is a rearview mirror.

a faith that I have tried to absorb through beliefs and practices handed down to me by my father and others, my own observations, as well as an extensive reading of the scriptures in translation and numerous scholarly treatises. The

Error is a stage on the road to truth.

May you never forget what is worth remembering or remember what is best forgotten.

Familiarity breeds wrong conclusions, the Guild taught.

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing; but they are the poorest interpreters.

The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe "this concerns me," above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.

He [F. Scott Fitzgerald] had learned to theorize, to think, although he was always less interested in the dissection of his reading than in the enjoyment he received. (About F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.

You admit nothing. Deny everything. Demand proof. Did you learn nothing in Boot Camp? (Mace to Smitty)

More militerry, less skools.