Quotes About Learning

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Everything in the world was my Guru.

Questioner: Is intellectual knowledge enough? Maharshi: Unless intellectually known, how to practice it? Learn it intellectually first, then do not stop with that. Practise it.

Not everyone who plays knows the rules and neither the One who watches the game is a novice, Grow Up!

Nothing is ever wrong if you learn out of it and nothing is right if it makes you arrogant. Watch On!"

it can be tempting to hoard knowledge, to use it as a way to gain advantage over others. But if we seek to serve our fellow man, we must spread the things we learn as far and wide as possible. To empower the downtrodden, we must put knowledge in their hands.

If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive.

The pursuit of truth is like picking raspberries. You miss a lot if you approach it from only one angle.

his own willingness to practice Morse code "about 18 hours a day." (Edison's capacity for extended bursts of work would be his principal vanity his entire life.) This intensive tutelage soon enabled him to become a professional telegraph operator.

Wisdom, said William James, Is learning what to overlook. And I am wise If that is wisdom.

useful knowledge was to be acquired only by doing, by living, by running headlong into the burning house of human experience and coming out singed and scorched, lungs full of smoke. Such knowledge would arise not during but after the experience, when you are sitting alone in the dark and re-creating everything you did and felt and assessing the wisdom or foolishness of each moment, the penalties and rewards.

For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.

We can also, more than any other species, protect ourselves from being poisoned by learning about how to avoid it. Only we can read about the dangerous plants in our gardens and woodlands, and we are the the species whose diets are most shaped by social learning. A food our mothers fed us can usually be accepted as safe and nourishing. What our friends eat without apparent harm is at least worth a try. What they avoid we would be wise to treat cautiously.

If one isn't ready for the feedback, one shouldn't ask.

We must teach the new disciples to also do what Jesus commanded the twelve and the seventy to do when they were commissioned. Discipleship in the first century was not merely learning the teachings of the master discipler, but also learning to model their lives on his life, believing like he did, behaving like he did, and doing what he did.

Apprentices work furiously to learn the rules; journeymen proudly perfect the rules; but masters forget the rules.

you have to be able to survive mistakes in order to learn, and you have to learn in order to create sustainable success

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

The questions are always more important than the answers.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.