Quotes About Learning

I've often cited the Buddhist proverb "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Although it is not always evident at the time, all of our experiences in this life, even those that are painful, have a true and necessary purpose in our soul's journey.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

a good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job.

I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Kahlil Gibran: "For in truth, it is life that gives unto life—while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness." The witness is a compassionate observer, the part of you that is not in the world of form but rather is watching your form. Learning to cultivate it means that you get outside of yourself and watch what is happening in your life, all from the perspective of being the observer.

spend a long period of time in study and self-cultivation

when the student is ready, the teachers will appear.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

you're here to teach yourself and others in some way, and that the work is to raise the collective energy of our entire universe.

I have revised some folk wisdom lately; one of my edited proverbs is Nothing fails like success because you do not learn anything from it. The only thing we ever learn from is failure. Success only confirms our superstitions.

Cuando el alumno esté preparado aparecerá el maestro».

El ser espiritual ve en el mundo físico un campo donde crecer y aprender, con el propósito específico de servir y evolucionar hacia niveles más elevados de amor.

the idea of looking at the most damaging things in your life, the things that have caused you the most pain and suffering, and figuring out a way to turn those into your greatest teachers, bearing your greatest gifts.

really been teaching for thirty years or have you been teaching one year, thirty times?" And you, dear reader, have you really lived 10,000 or more days or have you lived one day, 10,000 or more times? A good question to ask yourself as you work toward more spontaneity in your life.

You don't learn much from a victory except to stay the same.

There is a positive force in the universe, and I am a part of that force. I can make anything I want happen for myself. I am connected to all of humanity. I live in a perfect universe, where there's a synchronicity and no coincidences. Everything that happens does so for a reason, and I am here to learn from it. Forgiveness is a way of life.

You don't have to be an immediate expert at everything, Juli. The idea here is to learn something new.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings. We must suspect that any statistical justification of ugliness and violence is a revelation of stupidity. (pg.192-193, People, Land, and Community)

Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.