Quotes About Learning

It's a very old idea that patience leads to skills, of course - but it seems urgent now that we go further than this and think about patience itself as the skill to be learned.

Patience is learned through waiting

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.

As patience leads to peace, and study to science, so are humiliations the path that leads to humility.

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

For even the best of peace training is more theoretical than practical experience ... indirect practical experience may be the more valuable because infinitely wider.

I could start a war in 30 seconds. But some countries spend 100 years trying to find peace. Just like good manners, peace has to be learned.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.