Quotes About Learning

That was the glory of man - to nurture and maintain knowledge.

No one can learn to love by following a manual and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

You should pay more attention to the caravan, the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination. And you ought to read more about the world, answered the Englishman. Books are like caravans in that respect.

We're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives.

one must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That

When you are moving toward an objective,' said Petrus, 'it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is te road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk it's length

There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.

we two have to live with our mistakes

What is learning: accumulating knowledge? Or transforming our lives?

But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyzes you is fear of making a mistake. If you ave made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time. If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make. Each arrow leaves a memory in your heart, and it is the sum of those memories that will make you shoot better and better.

Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

Quand nous nous engageons dans le chemin, nous avons toujours une idee plus ou moins definie de ce que nous voulons trouver. Les femmes en general recherchent l'Autre Partie, les hommes le Pouvoir. Ni les uns ni les autres ne desirent apprendre: ils veulent arriver au but qu'ils se sont fixes.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

they are people who are not afraid of making mistakes and who do, therefore, make mistakes, which is why their work often goes unrecognised.

J]e t'ai dressée à te soumettre, de même qu'une fleur subit le soleil et la pluie.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of the process of enlightenment.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage—and indeed perhaps more.

I would ask my teacher a question, Yehonala said. Ask, Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side. When may I paint a picture of my own? Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. When I can no longer command you.

I do not know when it is that the joy fades out of school for most children, so that they end not only by hating school but even worse, by hating books, and this is grave indeed, for in books alone is the accumulated wisdom of the whole human race, and to read no books is to deprive the self of ready access to wisdom.

he believed that to answer a child's question before it is asked is to destroy natural curiosity.

The very young are not ready for much knowledge. It must be given to them slowly, in proportion to their years of life. One must first live before he can safely know.