Quotes About Learning

With pain came insight.

Practice makes perfect.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Wer nicht in anderen Städten und bei fremden Meistern gearbeitet hatte, durfte selber nicht Meister werden. Man mußte in der Fremde Geselle gewesen sein, wenn man daheim Meister werden wollte.

How often the pillars of our wisdom have crumbled into dust!

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

I had read history too closely, read of Caesar and the Roman Empire. I had not noticed that in the books there were white spaces between each line; the white spaces are there to remind you of the unspoken, unwritten truth. When one only reads the words and does not read what is not written in the book, then one will never learn to understand.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding." ~

By finding out the things we don't know, we reassess our innate convictions and master our mind-set. As we take time to review the issues in a balanced way, we can restfully remain mindful. ("Looking for the unexpected" )

Life is a game and people love games. But games need rules. Most children's plays or guileless entertaining assume rules. Without rules we cannot play and without play we cannot enjoy life. ("When forgetting the rules of the game" )

Remembering our past can be a healthy exercise. We should yet beware of manipulations of our memory. By sticking to things that torment us, we can be tempted to brood over what should have, could have or would have been done.(no shoulda,coulda,woulda). When we walk down the memory lane, we learn from the past and pick for the present the fundamentals, which can be brought into play for the future. ("Walking down the memory lane" )

The only real measure of the effectiveness of my teaching is what happens in the mind of the person learning.

It seems to me there is always pain—or at least discomfort—involved in getting really good at something.

The ability to learn quickly is the most important skill to have.

MOVING TOWARD MASTERY Don't Stop Yourself Honor How You Learn Practice

Employees who consistently behave as though it is your responsibility to "make them successful"; who blame you or others for their lack of success; who don't take the initiative to learn and grow—these employees are not fulfilling a key part of their role. It's easy to get pulled into their worldview; that is, that their role is to be a passive observer of your efforts to "grow" them, and that it's your fault if it doesn't work.

Firestar: Okay, Jayfeather, what does mallow look like? Jayfeather: I don't know, do I? I've never seen it.

Leopardstar says that they're staying with us so the Clans can exchange training methods and fighting techniques, but I don't see much sign of it. All they do is watch....It's like they're learning all about us, all our secrets and weaknesses. That's why I came over here, to get away from them for a bit.

To truly be a medicine cat lies in a cat's heart, and all its five senses. You must be braver than warriors, wiser than a clan leader, humbler than the tiniest kit, more willing to learn than an apprentice...

She's a skilled and swift fight, and I know she'll pass on her training on to you.

The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart.

Ah, a puny apprentice. Easy prey for Yellowfang