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Quotes About Learning

First learning, then proving I'd learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren't the same thing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Read every day and learn from what you read.
~ Octavia E. Butler
It scares me how many things I've got to learn. How will I learn them?
~ Octavia E. Butler
To survive, know the past. Let it touch you. Then let The past Go.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I want you to be serious. I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
~ Octavia E. Butler
As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them—usually—but lose the experience itself. We
~ Octavia E. Butler
Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Learn everything you can from these people, and bring what you learn back to the rest of us. Even the stupid, ugly things that they say and do might be important. Their lying promises might hide a truth. If we collect what we see and hear, if we stay united, work together, support one another, then the time will come when we can win our freedom or kill them or both!
~ Octavia E. Butler
Earthseed Cast on new ground Must first perceive That it knows nothing.
~ Octavia E. Butler
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. Forget talent. If you have it, fine. Use it. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter. As habit is more dependable than inspiration, continued learning is more dependable than talent.
~ Octavia E. Butler
If you can think of ways to entertain them and teach them at the same time, you'll get your information out. And all without making anyone look down." "Look down … ?" "Into the abyss, Daughter.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken from you, All that you love or hate, need or fear Will teach you— If you will learn. God is your first and your last teacher. God is your harshest teacher: subtle, demanding. Learn or die.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Respect God: Pray working. Pray learning, planning, doing. Pray creating, teaching, reaching. Pray working. Pray to focus your thoughts, still your fears, strengthen your purpose. Respect God. Shape God. Pray working. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
~ Octavia E. Butler
I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I would never have been a good scientist—my attention span was too short for that.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I have watched education become more a privilege of
~ Octavia E. Butler
Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm. Partnership is mutualistic symbiosis. Partnership is life. Any entity, any process that cannot or should not be resisted or avoided must somehow be partnered. Partner one another. Partner diverse communities. Partner life. Partner any world that is your home. Partner God. Only in partnership can we thrive, grow, Change. Only in partnership can we live.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Any kind of survival information from encyclopedias, biographies, anything that helps you learn to live off the land and defend ourselves. Even some fiction might be useful.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I mean to learn everything I can while I can,' I said. 'If I find myself outside, maybe what I've learned will help me live long enough to learn more.
~ Octavia E. Butler
L'intelligenza è adattabilità, costante e individuale.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm. Partnership is mutualistic symbiosis. Partnership is life. Any entity, any process that cannot or should not be resisted or avoided must somehow be partnered. Partner one another. Partner diverse communities. Partner life.
~ Octavia E. Butler