Quotes About Learning

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Freedom can occur only through education.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it.

Qui augmente sa connaissance augmente son ignorance.

Je mehr man schon weiß, je mehr hat man noch zu lernen. Mit dem Wissen nimmt das Nichtwissen in gleichem Grade zu, oder vielmehr das Wissen des Nichtwissens.

Vielmehr stellt er auch die Bildung vor die Frage, wie der Konflikt zwischen Glaube und Wissen etwa durch gebildete Reflexion zumindest abgemildert werden kann.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Most execs, particularly first-time CEOs who get good at one thing, can only dance what they know how to dance.

he had shown me how to do that maybe a dozen times before. But that was the time that it stuck

Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The

Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The simplest solutions are the best. Repeating

Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself. It also learns very quickly to trust very few people - if any.

Dumb-bunnies think that if they don't understand the dharma or memorize it, then there's no benefit to even hearing it. They think that the best thing is to pursue knowledge and that if they forget what they've learned they might as well not have learned it at all.

If we think that time passes by us while we somehow remain the same, that's not real learning. Master

We eat living food. Through our food we learn constantly how to live on this earth. We are constantly supported by all phenomenal currents of life; we are lived by all beings. That is the truth. We are lived by whom and whatever we take, by their teachings that guide us. One way to live is to show all of their natures through our existence. It is different from our usual way of continuously exploring our capacities for what we really want to do.

There's no comparison between someone who has their own real experience and someone who just reads about the experiences of others.

Once we meet a good teacher we should throw away everything else and just get on with it.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If you can read, there is no worldly wisdom that cannot be gathered from the pages of a book.

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.