Quotes About Learning

After every setback, ask yourself: What did I learn from this experience? Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

Learning is a lot like eating. It is not how much we eat that matters, but what really matters is how much we digest.

We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live.

Our cognitive skills are not fixed. At all ages the brain has the ability to respond to new information and new stimuli. Our intellectual abilities are a combination of our inherent genetic gifts and the lifelong consequences of all of the decisions we make that either positively or negatively contribute to our cognitive fitness.

you can learn something from every failure but you can't learn everything from one failure

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.

Be humble: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

You should rather be grateful for the weeds, because eventually they will enrich your practice.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the experts mind, there are few.

For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little.

There is no easy way to be a teacher or a disciple, although it must be the greatest joy in this life.

In the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind, there are few.

It is quite usual for us to gather pieces of information from various sources, thinking in this way to increase our knowledge. Actually, following this way we end up not knowing anything at all... Instead of gathering knowledge, you should clear your mind. If your mind is clear, true knowledge is already yours.

This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

V mysli za?áte?níka jsou spousty možností. V mysli odborníka je jich jen pár.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few

In the beginner's mind, there are unlimited possibilities. In the expert's mind, there are few.

Jeder wiederholt seine Fehler ein Leben lang. Völlig klar, dass sich nichts wirklich weiterentwickelt, denn in jedem spiegelt sich die Welt, die ihre Geschichte wiederholt bis zur Verblödung.

A failure is just the wrong way of looking at a missed opportunity!!!

Only smart people can make silly mistakes.

There is no point in being experienced, if you haven't learned anything.