Learning Quotes

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.