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8f823f6 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. carpe-diem education inspirational learning Mahatma Gandhi
133e114 We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved. growing humanity inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-love inspirational-quotes learning life-and-living life-lessons love people real-love reality reality-of-life those-who-love-us to-be-loved true-love what-matters C. JoyBell C.
4c09cfe The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
b8fee32 Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. giving goals goals-in-life inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes learn learning life life-quotes light light-and-darkness living-life meaning meaning-of-life meaningful meaningful-life wisdom wise Roy T. Bennett
14a8ce3 "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." depression education learning teaching T.H. White
15116b4 Don't Jus act action change criticize doing dream dreams encouragement experience feeling giving inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes listening living optimism optimistic ponder positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking thinking transform Roy T. Bennett
f76b713 Time doesn't heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go. heal inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes learning let-go letting-go letting-go-of-the-past life life-quotes pain spiritual time Roy T. Bennett
7bf35d2 Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. improvement inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success Roy T. Bennett
878af63 For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. compassion inspiration inspirational knowledge learning philosophy science values Neil deGrasse Tyson
d97e981 We learn from failure, not from success! experience learning mistakes records wisdom Bram Stoker
01184ff Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. beauty experience flight flying freedom growing growth heal healing hurt hurting inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons living living-life pain painful wind wings wisdom wisdom-in-life wisdom-quotes C. JoyBell C.
6437ba5 I am not a teacher, but an awakener. carpe-diem education inspirational learning mentoring Robert Frost
9c83e30 A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it's up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again. cherishing faith heartwarming hope inspirational learning letting-go life life-and-learning life-and-living life-lessons stars treasure C. JoyBell C.
89d76a9 Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. education educational inspirational inspiring learning mentoring E.M. Forster
602361c Never stop dreaming believe inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational never-give-up never-stop-believing never-stop-dreaming never-stop-learning never-stop-trying optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success Roy T. Bennett
ce36b11 Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you'll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward. happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living mistake optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
86929a4 I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do. change character-defining character-quote growth growth-life inspirational inspirational-attitude inspiring learning life-and-living random stubbornness unpredictable C. JoyBell C.
e57731b The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be. growth inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-living inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living living self-awareness self-belief self-love C. JoyBell C.
d705af3 A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. learning life teaching John Grogan
9efc797 Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter. growing heart humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking what-matters Roy T. Bennett
c557b80 Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you. growing growth humanism humanity inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes learning life life-and-living life-experiences life-lessons C. JoyBell C.
129f96b Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. being-human happiness human human-nature humanism humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living love optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
cc22f4d Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey. experience inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning lessons-in-life life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking teach Roy T. Bennett
43ccf31 When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore. achievement breaking-free changing cinderella flying freedom fulfilling-your-potential fulfillment goodbye-cinderella growing inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning life life-and-living limits living living-life personal-fulfillment personal-limits potential running self-discovery self-growth soaring waiting your-full-potential C. JoyBell C.
b7ea387 Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward. change failure failures inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring keep-going keep-moving-forward learn learning life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic perseverance positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking risk success Roy T. Bennett
e183f8c Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. belong belonging changing growing inspirational inspirational-love inspirational-love-quotes inspirational-quotes learning learning-the-truth life-and-learning life-and-living love people person C. JoyBell C.
a68856b You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations. challenge growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learn learning life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential Roy T. Bennett
bb2d708 It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be. future happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes live-in-the-present living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking worry Roy T. Bennett
b7acc23 This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up! caring dancing devil forgiving healing helping hugging inspirational laughing learning life loving loving-choices motivational sharing smiling wondering Steve Maraboli
acee8fa To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong. fearless inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking trying Roy T. Bennett
60ca149 For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. doing inspirational learning learning-by-doing life practice Aristotle
9c9f80a Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading. inspirational learning reading writing devotion Eudora Welty
d2caa38 When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay. black-and-white childish childishness differences different god grey greyness growing growth inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes learning life life-and-living life-lessons living living-life right-and-wrong wrong-and-right C. JoyBell C.
a3e5c23 People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. changing king learning stephen Stephen King
9cfc0e2 How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals. failure inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success Roy T. Bennett
9a8303f No matter how much experience you have, there's always something new you can learn and room for improvement. experience improvement inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
5c01ba7 A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold. friends learning reading reading-books sharing sharing-books Henry Miller
51045ef "Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do." learning understanding Umberto Eco
d9a0f2d Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this. abyss facts humble inspirational learning nature open-minded peace peace-of-mind preconceptions preparation risk science Thomas Huxley
c1985c9 A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. inspirational learning Sophocles
c3c38c9 Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. education knowledge learning teaching Plato
c4bfc10 You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. individuality insight issues learning life morality novels reading self-righteousness sensitivity society Azar Nafisi
d55c265 He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath. learning twenty Laurell K. Hamilton
bb0701f The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. learning time Geoffrey Chaucer
0393ad2 The only things you learn are the things you tame education learning persistence Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
e6a51dd Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. education expression feelings humor inspirational learning life love truth Jason Mraz
ad9ea53 Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. inspirational learning libraries library Sidney Sheldon
372f6dd Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person. inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-love inspirational-love-quotes inspirational-quotes learning learning-the-truth learnings looking-for-love love people person C. JoyBell C.
85e7917 Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? education inspiration inspirational learning Noam Chomsky
9fe4d70 Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. learning teaching Richard Bach
6b7a0ca to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know. doing learning Stephen R. Covey
4921d9d Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. inspirational learning motivational opportunity Sarah Caldwell
c31fe19 I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas. homeschool homeschooling learning Agatha Christie
efa31d2 "I get so god damn lonely and sad and filled with regrets some days. It overwhelms me as I'm sitting on the bus; watching the golden leaves from a window; a sudden burst of realisation in the middle of the night. I can't help it and I can't stop it. I'm alone as I've always been and sometimes it hurts.... but I'm learning to breathe deep through it and keep walking. I'm learning to make things nice for myself. To comfort my own heart when I wake up sad. To find small bits of friendship in a crowd full of strangers. To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying "I thought of you. I hope you're well." No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it. anxiety-disorder being-happy books breath breathing bus december deep depression emotions feelings friendship gratitude growing-up happy heal healing heart joy learn learning letters life-quotes lonely lovely mental-health mental-wellness mindfulness minimalism moment night panic panic-attacks plan prose recovery regret sad sadness self-care sky trying well worries worrying Charlotte Eriksson
5c6e1f8 Everything I know, I learned from dogs. dogs learning Nora Roberts
04c5855 I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. intervention invitation learning mistakes Elizabeth Gilbert
c173397 Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. education growing growth inspirational inspirational-quotes inspiring learning learning-process life life-and-living school-of-life teachings wealth wisdom wisdom-quotes C. JoyBell C.
f038680 "When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes." learning physics science Richard P. Feynman
a26dd7f I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. curiosity determination homer-hickam learning october-sky rocket-boys Homer Hickam
6399320 Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. learning teaching Frank Herbert
2b953ab The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know. learning man the-lost-symbol dan brown
039008b What I learned on my own I still remember discovery education intelligence learning reading schooling thinking thought Nassim Nicholas Taleb
79aa04d You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something. learning George Bernard Shaw
64666c1 One day you will learn that love does not always betray you. learning love Mary Balogh
f681730 When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart. heart human-nature inquisitive learning love Charlotte Brontë
f127b88 No truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning. kindness learning sadness sincerity sorrow strength truth warning Haruki Murakami
9b62e1c I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night--in the moments before I pass off into sleep--ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. learning life meaning truth Daniel Keyes
ef24a55 For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. instinct learning Philip Pullman
4a3884f It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. dying growth ignorance learning life Mitch Albom
e6dc651 re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body. [From the preface to Leaves Grass] learning soul truth wisdom Walt Whitman
3237455 The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself. learning life mastery perpetual spirit student suffering truth zen Robert Greene
6b7c687 The past is a place of learning, not a place of living. experience inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-quotes living Roy T. Bennett
7a5b80a One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. experience learning life-experience Frank Herbert
0b6c655 Learnin' how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. learning Terry Pratchett
5266090 If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed- fear learning name Patricia A. McKillip
f66ebc5 As a result of his experiments he concluded that imitation was a real evil that had to be broken before real rhetoric teaching could begin. This imitation seemed to be an external compulsion. Little children didn't have it. It seemed to come later on, possibly as a result of school itself. That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. If you don't imitate what the teacher wants you get a bad grade. Here, in college, it was more sophisticated, of course; you were supposed to imitate the teacher in such a way as to convince the teacher you were not imitating, but taking the essence of the instruction and going ahead with it on your own. That got you A's. Originality on the other hand could get you anything - from A to F. The whole grading system cautioned against it. grades imitation learning rhetoric school Robert M. Pirsig
86b7f4c Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye. dreams learning work Terry Pratchett
b73b4b9 Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing. learning life survival winning Orson Scott Card
71f8972 Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her. dialectics education greatness hypatia-of-alexandria knowledge learning murder philosophers skills superiority suppression women Iain Pears
8152950 A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won. learning the-chronicles-of-prydain wisdom Lloyd Alexander
07628cd Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? foolishness futility humanity intelligence knowledge learning mankind stupidity wisdom H. Rider Haggard
dfc93d3 "Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115" leadership learning Mary Shelley
2d32374 The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change. growth journey learning Daniel Quinn
4f9a5c6 "People think of education as something that they can finish. And what's more, when they finish, it's a rite of passage. You're finished with school. You're no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school - reading books, having ideas, asking questions - that's kid's stuff. Now you're an adult, you don't do that sort of thing any more. learning lifetime Isaac Asimov
14e3227 Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death. learning science Carl Sagan
a1e2829 Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better. learning Louisa May Alcott
6985add We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified -- how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don't know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know. learning physics science Richard P. Feynman
24bbc94 If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all? efforts learning Stephen King
b04a0ac My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. knowledge learning self-awareness Henry David Thoreau
fce8722 Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges. learning weaponry wolves Terry Pratchett
a2d1f3f There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning. knowledge learning self siddhartha Hermann Hesse
f808d4b You can't learn everything you need to know legally. learning legality life-lessons John Irving
5901b1a Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world anne-shirley learning L.M. Montgomery
51fef0e The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy. ender learning mentor strategy war Orson Scott Card
5afcd95 I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. being-a-reader biblioholism bookishness books learning reader reading Anthony Powell
ce254d8 "Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it too. Adults lay down rules they would not think of following, speak truths they do not believe. And yet they expect children to obey the rules, believe the truths, and admire and respect their parents for this nonsense. Children must be very wise and secret to tolerate adults at all. And the greatest nonsense of all that adults expect children to believe is that people learn by experience. No greater lie was ever revered. And its falseness is immediately discerned by children since their parents obviously have not learned anything by experience. Far from learning, adults simply become set in a maze of prejudices and dreams and sets of rules whose origins they do not know and would not dare inspect for fear the whole structure might topple over on them. I think children instinctively know this," Ed said. "Intelligent children learn to conceal their knowledge and keep free of this howling mania." children education experience learning John Steinbeck
44d3143 Tu as tout a apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifference, la patience, le silence. Tu dois te deshabituer de tout: d'aller a la rencontre de ceux que si longtemps tu as cotoyes, de prendre tes repas, tes cafes a la place que chaque jour d'autres ont retenue pour toi, ont parfois defendue pour toi, de trainer dans la complicite fade des amities qui n'en finissent pas de se survivre, dans la rancoeur opportuniste et lache des liaisons qui s'effilochent. learning solitude Georges Perec
16cebc9 I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. education educational-enrichment educational-inequity knowledge-acquisition learning Howard Zinn
a913409 What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much. ignorance knowledge learning lies loss pain philosophy philosophy-of-life Margaret Atwood
329afbf Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning. grow growing learning opportunity Terry Tempest Williams
a0365ac Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. fallen-nations futility inevitability knowledge learning man mankind materialism nations passing-of-time time H. Rider Haggard
12de1b1 You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation. learning trainspotting Irvine Welsh
977f7bf Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. learning Frank Herbert
3d78491 In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. insufficiency knowledge learning life-lessons wonder Iain Pears
86c4715 We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It's a strange thing isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning. education learning psychology teaching Malcolm Gladwell
6197359 In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available. learning students Bill Bryson
d56339b "I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge." "What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg?" said Granny. "Bugger all," said Nanny cheerfully. "Then we'd better bloody well escape right now." learning prison Terry Pratchett
b8a5b19 Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. english female french learning male Jeffrey Eugenides
788e7e1 Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it's really learning. The questions, What's being taught? What's the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum. grades grading-systems learning public-school school-system teaching Robert M. Pirsig
bca3ee2 We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. dreams knowledge learning Kim Stanley Robinson
1be259c "But there's so to learn," he said, with a thoughtful frown. "Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters." "That's just what I mean," explained Milo as Tock and the exhausted bug drifted quietly off to sleep. "Many of the things I'm supposed to know seem so useless that I can't see the purpose in learning them at all." "You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way." learning purpose Norton Juster
0568046 "Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be able to recognize the issues and perhaps avoid some of the solutions that have failed in the past. And we can take heart in our own dilemma by realizing that other people in other times have survived worse." learning mistakes Elizabeth Peters
738c541 Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend. learning Edgar Allan Poe
cf7dc04 Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me. learning librarians libraries Ray Bradbury
3afe3e4 "Dear God," said Nudge under her breath, "I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I want them to love me. I already love them. Please see what you can do. Thanks very much. Love, Nudge." Okay, so I'm not saying we were pros at this or anything. (Max thoughts)" desire funny god humor learning love parents praying James Patterson
bf3e8a3 Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. education learning reading scholorship E.M. Forster
8ee5af5 And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. endeavors greed humanity ladder learning life mankind materialism things-that-matter want H. Rider Haggard
26c4a6d I never learn anything from listening to myself. learning listening-skills Barbara Kingsolver
4b755c5 You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them. learning lesson life love John Irving
09b55f9 Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. enlightenment landscape learning meditation travel Barry Lopez
e4de27a "I need a break after school," she told me later. "School is hard because a lot of people are in the room, so you get tired. I freak out if my mom plans a play date without telling me, because I don't want to hurt my friends' feelings. But I'd rather stay home. At a friend's house you have to do the things other people want to do. I like hanging out with my mom after school because I can learn from her. She's been alive longer than me. We have thoughtful conversations. I like having conversations because they make people happy." feelings happy home introvert introverts learning mom play quiet school thoughtful thoughts Susan Cain
7c5448f Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. change learning travel Jack Kerouac
d04cc7b "They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I've watched you fight. It's not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they'd be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?" compassion game-of-thrones george-r-r-martin humble inspiring jon-snow learning life-lessons pride the-wall things-to-remember George R.R. Martin
2a6f320 dh 'khfyt jhlk jydan .. ln yw'dhyk 'Hd, wlknk ln tt`lm 'yDan learning Ray Bradbury
25ab879 In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. happiness inspirational learning Richard Bach
73bb837 I will learn by screwing up. learning success-strategies Greg Bear
8e70238 "Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, "How did you learn all this, Isaac?" "From you, Pappa", I said. good-life learning life Isaac Asimov
1d154f8 A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment. learning life responsibility shoulders warrior world Paulo Coelho
07b4a70 Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other. learning self-awareness specialization thought-provoking Richard P. Feynman
9a7b485 Age doesn't matter: an open mind does. learning Timothy Ferriss
07efdb7 When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came. extraordinary genius learning napoleon-bonaparte nurture raphael richard-wagner study talent thomas-edison training william-shakespeare Mark Twain
86fa944 Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. american-civil-war-biography experience learning mistakes Shelby Foote
8061a2f I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned. learning Ishmael Reed
1066898 It began to strike me that the point of my education was a kind of discomfort, was the process that would not award me my own especial Dream but would break all the dreams, all the comforting myths of Africa, of America, and everywhere, and would leave me only with humanity in all its terribleness. And there was so much terrible out there, even among us. You must understand this. blacks discomfort education learning race-relations racism Ta-Nehisi Coates
62394ee But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. books education learning Frank Herbert
6a0b8bb ...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. books celebrities equality information knowledge learning prejudice reading Alan Bennett
bc7606c "When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -" "Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked. "We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!" learning mock-turtle pun school taught teacher tortoise turtle wonderland Lewis Carroll
b1e5223 Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to enter at any point without prejudice. This is why you shall never hear or see a television program begin with the caution that if the viewer has not seen the previous programs, this one will be meaningless. Television is a nongraded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away with the idea of sequence and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself. epistemology knowledge learning rational-thought television Neil Postman
774af81 I was more than my limitations; I was learning learning Robin S. Sharma
e259b27 There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution. inquiry learning teaching thinking Neil Postman
abafd2d Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince's band. They'd sit down, and Prince would tell them what he wanted them to play, and they'd explain that they couldn't--they weren't quick enough, or good enough. And Prince would push them and push them until they mastered it, and then just when they were feeling pleased with themselves for accomplishing something they didn't know they had the capacity for, he'd tell them the dance steps he needed to accompany the music. This story has stuck with me, I think, because it seems like an encapsulation of the very best and most exciting kind of creative process. encouragement learning music prince Nick Hornby
681ca3c A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one. learning reading school vocabulary J.R.R. Tolkien
dd93889 He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words. learning learning-to-read literacy love Markus Zusak
a3d5c36 Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding. failure history learning past problems solutions struggle success Jared Diamond
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