Quotes About Learning

We have two lives... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

We have two lives; the life we learn with and the life we live after that.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge & enhance an idea, to reform it . . . Revision is one of the true pleasures of writing.

Weinig mensen kunnen het nalaten zichzelf hoog te achten met betrekking tot de kennis die zij zich eens hebben verworven, zelfs als zijn deze zijn kwijtgeraakt. En als zij niet erg bescheiden en discreet zijn, zullen de onverteerde flarden die zulke mensen zich gewoonlijk van het Latijn herinneren, hen bijna altijd op een of ander moment belachelijk maken voor degenen die er wel goed van op de hoogte zijn.

I am not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

I heartily recommend Alan Watts' little book Instant Weather Forecasting, which taught me how to predict weather changes in minutes.

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Le but d'une vie lucide est d'aboutir à une déconfiture qui servira de leçon à tous ses contemporains. Car on n'apprend jamais de la victoire, on n'apprend que de la défaite.

Tout essayer, tout tenter, accumuler les expériences, ne plus se servir de celles du passé ou d'autrui pour comprendre mais ne se fier qu'à soi-même dans le présent.

Et tes ennemis sont souvent de très bons professeurs.

Il faut toujours remercier ses ennemis. Sans eux, tu n'évoluerais pas.

Le secret de la liberté, c'est la librairie.

it took her years to realise she wasn't being slow and stupid, she leaned the hard way to shoehorn herself into debates, to force them to explain exactly what the hell they were talking about, to hold them to account.

I am always studying character. Everyone I meet is a new study.

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

Bearing witness is not something to be done only at Auschwitz. When we bear witness to the unfolding of our daily lives, not shrinking from any situation that arises, we learn. We open to what is. And in that process, a healing arises.

We make too many wrong mistakes.

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

What are you working on?" Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: "I'm having a hard time; I'm preparing my next mistake.