Learning Quotes - Page 45

In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but to manage my own life takes true power. If I am content with what I have, I can live simply and enjoy both prosperity and free time. If my goals are clear, I can achieve them without fuss. If I am at peace with myself, I will not spend my life force in conflicts. If I have learned to let go, I do not need to fear dying.

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

In the particular is contained the universal.

I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

My father's saying, The harder you work, the luckier you get.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.