Learning Quotes - Page 14

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

We can learn something new anytime we believe we can.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out

I am forever on the way

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe; a moment that never was before and never will be again.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.