Quotes About Learning

I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.

You know the advice about how you should always play tennis with people better than you? When I'm talking to you, I'm a funnier and smarter version of myself because you're funny and smart.

We have to make mistakes. It's how we learn compassion for others." She paused.

get more stupider.

Maybe life isn't about the absence of embarrassment, it's about the mastery of embarrassment.

To be a leader you must be a reader. Read, lead, succeed. Cynthia Brian

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

The best way to learn is through experience. To continue to improve, add to your experience, take small steps, and do it every day.

You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unkowingness, and give up your volition...You've got to learn not-to-be before you can come into being.

Lads learn nothing nowadays, but how to recite poetry and play the fiddle.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

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Yet we must know, if only in order to learn not to known. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. That is, how to live dynamically, from the great Source, and not statically, like machines driven by ideas and principles from the head, or automatically from one fixed desire. At last, knowledge must be put into its true place in the living activity of man. And we must know deeply, in order to do that.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes. You can't know beforehand.

Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end. -Bobby Pendragon

Focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of the masters- penetrate deeply into a single form of practice.

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

Looking deeply into the writings and sutras of past teachers does not mean to learn something that is unrelated to us. Studying ancient writings means to study our lives. To study the Tenzo Ky?kun came to mean for me that I would be studying my own life.

A Zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.