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The more we rely on our presuppositions, the less we will learn.
— R.A.Delmonico
I found, as every teacher does, that there is nothing like teaching to help one learn.
— Dalai Lama XIV
If you can't explain why someone should pay attention to what you're saying, maybe you shouldn't be saying it.
— Dave Burgess, Teach Like a Pirate: Increase Student Engagement, Boost Your Creativity, and Transform Your Life As an Educator
Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
All these years! All this time with us -- have you learned nothing?!You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!Your judgement is shit!Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai.
— Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 1: Atomic Garden
...the [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning
—  learning is caused by complexity in the mind.
Defeated? Learn from it. Move forward. You're stronger now. Reach out for help. No shame, only learning. Seek out those you can learn from.
— Waylon H. Lewis
I try as much as possible to keep pushing myself beyond my limits, those set by myself, and those by others, to see how much lies within. He said nothing is impossible and I truly believe Him. Once in while I go beyond . . . More often than not, I get pretty burned and decline to tend to my sores in solitude, whilst trying the best I can to find out why I burned so bad.Other times, I surprise myself at the power within has been lying dormant probably out of ignorance or out of fear.Either ways, I learn . . .And probably that is the most significant thing to be gleaned out of every experience.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Farmers base their livelihoods on raising crops. But farmers do not make plants grow. They don't attach the roots, glue on the petals, or color the fruit. The plant grows itself. Farmers and gardeners provide the conditions for growth. Good farmers know what those conditions are, and bad ones don't.
— Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
When you want to learn something, all the life experiences conspire in helping you to learn.
— Utpal Vaishnav
I find some things difficult to grasp. I need to be shown or taught a few different ways sometimes before I figure it out
— Tina J. Richardson, I didnt mean it that way
Stupidity is a pretence to know unkowns, where as learning is a solution
— Wilson M. Mukama
But here is the thing about anger: People hold onto it because letting go means dealing with pain. It is a coping strategy that seems to show strength and confidence, but in reality it shows how much you care about someone's actions, which leads to this question: Why is this person's respect so important to you?
— Shannon L. Alder
it's always good to know that you have been the best even though deep inside you know you will never be better than that.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.
— H.G. Wells, World Brain
Life is about learning and growing. Experiencing. Self-expression. And overall, living love in all forms. Our soul’s evolution is dependent upon embracing, and becoming, unconditional love. Acceptance is an important part of that if we wish to avoid resistance and human drama. At the end of the day, we all just want to feel good and be happy. And attaining that is all that matters because then, we can be the highest versions of ourselves. The ups and downs of life are what make it real for us. The ups and downs that we experience within ourselves are what make us real, and human. In order to fully live each and every day, we need to open to all of life and all of ourselves. Resistance puts a kink in that seamless plan and brings us more of what we do not want.
— Camille Lucy, The (Real) Love Experiment: Explore Love, Relationships & the Self
The finding that rereading textbooks is often labor in vain ought to send a chill up the spines of educators and learners, because it’s the number one study strategy of most people—including more than 80 percent of college students in some surveys—and is central in what we tell ourselves to do during the hours we dedicate to learning. Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn’t result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content.
— Peter C. Brown
Grown ups’ could learn a lesson from watching cartoons.
— James Jean-Pierre
Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
— Todd William, Mind Games: 25 Thought Experiments to Ignite Your Imagination
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.
— Benjamin Barber
The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.
— Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
Learning is my sole delight.
— Francesco Petrarca
The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don’t lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another’s who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.
— Mark Darrah, A Catalogue of Common People
It is never too late to take another voyage.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to buy than burrow books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love to buying books to create my sacred library.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Devote yourself to self education.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
It is mathematics which reveals every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever then has the effrontery to study physics while neglecting mathematics, should know from the start that he will never make his entry into the portals of wisdom.
— Thomas Bradwardine
For every decision a 'man' makes, he makes it with the best of the depth of knowledge he possess at that particular instant and the quality of experiences he's passed through. It's not an excuse though for mediocrity, but an avenue to learn, rise, and conquer your inefficient self. By inference, beyond an extreme line, there might not necessarily be a qualification of a choice as wrong or right, but an avenue to grow depending on how the intricacies of such a choice and its consequences are handled.
— Ufuoma Apoki
Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes
—  own them... learn from them. Don’t throw away the lesson by blaming others.
I am determined to be a lifelong learner.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.
— Noam Chomsky
Sometimes it is the methods of learning, more so, than what is learned, that is useful!
— Garrett McCoy
While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?
— Ander Monson
Learn the rules. And play by the rules.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.
— Matthew Donnelly
The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it.
— Matthew Donnelly
I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.
— Elizabeth Little
The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
Deal with people from whom you can learn
— Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.
— Criss Jami, Healology
We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.
— Nur Bedeir
You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
— Oscar Wilde
Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!
— William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
Adams has done a bit of everything, from radio to television to designing computer games. Not all of them worked out. “These are life’s little learning experiences,” he said. “You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, ‘You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.’ “At the end of all this being-determined-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades, I think I’m better off just sitting down and putting a hundred thousand words in a cunning order.” Adams writes “slowly and painfully.” “People assume you sit in a room, looking pensive and writing great thoughts,” he said. “But you mostly sit in a room looking panic-stricken and hoping they haven’t put a guard on the door yet.
— Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
People must make make risks, must make mess in their life's. They must make make mistakes, they must think - This is the part of the proccess "learning"!
— Deyth Banger
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
— William James
It is the unknown that we thirst for. Curiosity that drives us... to learn. Not to hear, or to be told. But to see and feel, to experience.
— Steven Hudson
Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not always so practical to be so practical. Now that I’ve grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism pays its way as much as any degree in medicine or engineering, by making me remember every day—whenever I pick up a book or watch the Science Channel or try to read a map of Asia for no particular reason—that life is amazing and there is no end to the wonder of it.
— Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
To teach someone a lesson, show them how it's done. Force is a temporary solution. Judgment is no solution at all.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Stay focus on the goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Maybe it doesn’t matter how smart you are or aren’t, but how much you are willing to learn.
— Geetanjali Mukherjee, Anyone Can Get An A+: How To Beat Procrastination, Reduce Stress and Improve Your Grades
Internalizing problem-solving techniques enhances the neural activity that allows you to more easily hear the whispers of your growing intuition. When you know—really know—how to solve a problem just by looking at it, you’ve created a commanding chunk that sweeps like a song through your mind.
— Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
My grandfather would pet the dog, and, in a voice that made him sound like some kind of children's program puppet, he would say: "You're a dog! You're a dog! Where are you? You're a dog!" and the dog's tongue would drop out of its mouth and it would start keening. After a few hours of this, I said, "Jesus Grandpa, I get it, he's a dog," not knowing that, just a few years later, I would be reminding every dog I met on the street that it was a dog, and asking it where it was.
— Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife
Self education leads to self-development and self-liberation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I believe in the importance of learning from what has been discovered before. And in how precious health is, and how hard I must work to preserve it in all my Clanmates. The fact that the world of signs, omens, and dreams that have hidden meanings is closed to me doesn't feel like something is missing, Mistystar. I respect what you believe. You must respect what matters to me.
— Erin Hunter, Mistystar's Omen
Success is shown to us as a straight line, heading in one direction, up. There are no detours, no turn-arounds, no missteps allowed. ... When you aren’t allowed to fail, either due to the expectations of others or yourself, although it may seem like you are being pragmatic and focusing on how to succeed, you are actually making it that much harder for yourself.
— Geetanjali Mukherjee, Anyone Can Get An A+: How To Beat Procrastination, Reduce Stress and Improve Your Grades
We learn from trials and errors.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In order for us to grow we have to get our feet wet. If God put all the answers in front of us, we would never learn. We need to dig a little deeper, reach a little further, think a little harder, run a little faster, and surprisingly when we utilize our capabilities and push our limits, we begin to grow in leaps and bounds.
— Lindsey Rietzsch
One day you'll be like me" is a waste to say. Instead you should "Someday you'll be better than me.
— ParadoxReader
It takes lot of practice to get it right.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
you better learn how to learn better...
— Sajed Bloodkick
I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood.
— Laillah Gifty Akita
If you listen to wise sayings, you will have a bright future.
— Lailah  Gifty  Akita
Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don't necessarily know even exist. I think that's an important part of learning and growing. The more [you]'re willing to ask, the more {you}'re going to get out of it.
— Jay Rinaldi
If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.
— Jill D. Block
The First BookOpen it.Go ahead, it won't bite.Well. . . maybe a little.More a nip, like. A tingle.It's pleasurable, really.You see, it keeps on opening.You may fall in.Sure, it's hard to get started;remember learning to useknife and fork? Dig in:you'll never reach bottom.It's not like it's the end of the world--just the world as you thinkyou know it.
— Rita Dove, On the Bus With Rosa Parks
Sometimes we find ourselves thinking that since the call comes from the Lord, everything ought to work out smoothly, with every potential obstacle removed. We forget sometimes that life is a "schooling" provided for our growth and development, and that if every time we went on the Lord's errand, things were to go perfectly well because of the Lord's blessing, we would be deprived of much of our education. {re 1 Nephi 3:7}
— David J. Ridges
Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.
— Confucius, The Analects of Confucius: Bilingual Edition, English and Chinese: 論語
If you don't have anything good to say to yourself, don't say anything at all
— Eric Nwachukwu
If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it's safe to say that life is a school and there are going to be tests.
— Kayko Tamaki
Be inquisitive. Open your eyes, open your minds to things you don't necessarily know even exist. I think that's an important part of learning and growing. The more [you]'re willing to ask, the more [you]'re going to get out of it.
— Jay Rinaldi
If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)
— Jill D. Block
Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you
— Munia Khan
The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.
— James Altucher, The Rich Employee
Over time, I discovered that learning new things doesn't always liberate you. Instead, it makes you wonder if your pants are on backward or if the trees are holding the sky up -- it makes you question all of your assumptions and conventions.
— Dee  Williams, The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir
I’ll always be a student, because I think of music as never ending.
— Lenny Breau
Being a novice is safe. When you are learning how to do something, you do not have to worry about whether or not you are good at it. But when you have done something, have learned how to do it, you are not safe any more. Being an expert opens you up to judgement.
— Helen Macdonald
I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it’s more important to learn to work with what you’ve got, under the circumstances you’ve been given, than wishing for different ones.
— Charlotte Eriksson
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
— Aristotle
. . as A martial arts teacher, we should never forget the first time we stepped onto the Dojo ground, remembering this, we will be better equipped to teach the next generation of Karate practitioners
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi, Shorinjiryu Ryujin Kenpo
Be teachable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.
— Elizabeth Naramore, The Storytellers
It is a state of mind, a learning of the oneness of things, an appreciation for fundamental insights known in Eastern philosophy and religion as simply the Way [or Tao]. For Boyd, the Way is not an end but a process, a journey…The connections, the insights that flow from examining the world in different ways, from different perspectives, from routinely examining the opposite proposition, were what were important. The key is mental agility
— Grant Hammond, The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.
— Orrin Woodward
But failure and success are labels placed upon people’s lives the way a child values winning a game whether or not they have to bend the rules in order to do it. But life is not a game and the rules cannot be bent without repercussions that prove damaging later on. We must play the game for all we are worth, and we must play it fairly. We play and lose and play again, over and over. We lose and we pick up and start again a little wiser. We learn the game a little better in the playing, learn lessons for the next game. And should we lose today it is only a step towards the winning of the larger game. We move our piece on the board one step at a time, but it is all part of some larger process.
— James Rozoff, Seven Stones
If you want to go to places worth going, you have to be open to personal growth. No matter how much your job pays you, if it doesn’t offer you the opportunity to grow, your efforts would only go to waste. There are really just some things that money can’t buy. Never stop learning!
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
A bird cannot fly with broken wings. Your heart cannot love without learning to heal.
— Kemi Sogunle
More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
— Shannon L. Alder
My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.
— Hermes Trismegistus
[What’s exciting is] the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there’s now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it’s time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There’s only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it.
— Isaac Asimov
When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form.
— Unarine Ramaru
Some things can't be taught
—  they can only be discovered.
Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn.
— Stewart Stafford
The mind delights in making connections.
— Nicholas Boothman, How to Make People Like You in 90 Seconds or Less
Books are silent, but have the ability to scream.
— Bert McCoy
We place this huge burden on answers to function as finish lines, when they more naturally perform as milestones. We fool ourselves if we believe that answers are the proper response to questions, when the formal acknowledgment of a question is to embrace its invitation to enter into the journey of learning.
— Tristan Sherwin, Love: Expressed
I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Always we learn things and then we forget them.
— Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
so many people who think they know only know what they don't know, as time passes by, they may get to know what they don't know and then they will know
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
One should learn by considering one's own failures that are a part of life.
— Eraldo Banovac
Learning continuously is the best way to build one's intellectual capacity.
— Eraldo Banovac
Still I walked into the snow, moving to keep warm, burning precious energy searching for an answer I couldn’t think of. I didn’t turn back, compelled to continue without the trail. I didn’t want to risk futilely backtracking. If I couldn’t find the trail before dark, I could wake tomorrow disoriented and desperate, without having even made any new miles; my loss of the PCT should have distressed me, but a new instinct led me forward. In this moment of despair I was refusing to stop fighting. I asked the mountains for some guidance, the strength to get myself out of here, and pulled wild power from within myself I’d never known I’d had.I was no longer following a trail.I was learning to follow myself.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
One may sleep as long as one prefers, but one should know that each hour of excess sleep is an hour lost for learning.
— Eraldo Banovac
Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
— Diamond Ryan
Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around.
— Lennox D.Lampkin
But why would anyone on a joyous occasion rake over past unpleasantness and dwell on painful events horrible to experience and repellent to recall? Silence is mightier than words. It clothes the wreckage that befalls us in the deep folds of forgetfulness unless someone stirs up the painful memories for the sole purpose of edifying us by example and, as with illnesses, of helping us avoid the causes that led us to them.
— Gregory of Nazianzus
I live within the world of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What if at school you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to pain a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it...Of course this sounds ridiculous, but this is how math is taught.
— Edward Frenkel
You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.
— Isaac Asimov
I am more than the person I was, I am more than who I am, and I am excited about who I have yet become.
— Dave Shepp
I dream of a house full of books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable..
— Jayesh Varma
Reflective learning provokes critical thinking, enabling us to pose relevant questions, revealing the profound oceans of ignorance that surround even the most learned scholars in our fields of modern knowledge, invoking us to be active participants in the crusade for equality, representation, and social justice.
— Martin Guevara Urbina, Latino Access to Higher Education: Ethnic Realitites and New Directions for the Twenty-first Century
Education stimulates self-study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Genuine collaboration is an environment that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation.
— Jane Ripley, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
— Plato, The Republic of Plato
It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.
— Tony Curl
The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.
— Markus W. Lunner
Bruner discusses the need for teachers to understand that children should want to study for study's own sake, for learnings's sake, not for the sake of good grades or examination success. The curriculum should, in other words, be interesting. (Yes, it sounds too obvious even to say, but sometimes the emphasis on content has trumped all other considerations, including that of making learning interesting.)
— Gary Thomas
If you do not learn to think today, tomorrow someone else will do and will wangle you.THE WOMAN THAT USED TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK, a story by David Cotos.
— David Cotos, Una mujer sin historia
I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyteller. If I am someone else, it's also because books move men more than journeys or tears.After many pages you end up learning a variant, a different move than the one taken and thought inevitable.I break away from what I am when I learn to treat my own life differently.
— Erri De Luca
Knowledge is self –discovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
i am not perfection i am learning per fractions of moments as they come
— SWANSH
Passion for books is the desire to read.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learneverything.
— Eraldo Banovac
Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it's a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me. Other times I think that my compulsion to settle into communities that are different from the ones I know is related to my passion for experiential learning. I learn best and most happily by doing, touching, sharing, tasting. When I'm somewhere I've never been before, learning goes on all day, every day.
— Rita Golden Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
Vân Uoc decided that she too would get to know the book inside out. And something miraculous happened when they were about a quarter of the way through reading it. After weeks of ploughing and hesitating, something clicked; she stopped stumbling over the unknown words and long sentences. Words magically started to reveal meaning, most of the time anyway, through context. And the sentences themselves stopped being obstacles and started telling a story. Her eyes were racing ahead; she was comprehending the shape and rhythm of the language.
— Fiona Wood, Cloudwish
There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.
— Subroto Bagchi
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
— Pliny the Elder
Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.
— S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped
No one ever pays to learn the most important things.
— Neel Burton
So, what did you learn?Curiosity asked the Cat, thenpoked her carcass with a stick.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer, The Porcupine of Mind
When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.
— Douglas Brinkley, Cronkite
Some of the test subjects were given cards that had both words printed in full, like this:Hot: ColdOthers used cards that showed only the first letter of the second word, like this:Hot: CThe people who used the cards with the missing letters performed much better in a subsequent test measuring how well they remembered the word pairs. Simply forcing their minds to fill in a blank, to act rather than observe, led to stronger retention of information.
— Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us
The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty
— Sunday Adelaja
A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Life is here to teach us, so be a good student. Mistakes are the only way we learn.
— Dannika Dark
Self-discovery is a sacred knowledge
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
However much we stumble, it is a teacher's burden always to hope, that with learning, a boy's character might be changed. And, so, the destiny of a man.
— William Hundert - The Emperors Club
Not only is the experience of learning inspiring, the results are fulfilling.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real lessons of fortitude that come to us by chance and from those who depend on chance. Everything contains everything else.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Spend more time alone learning keep doing that and don't allow your mind to focus on worthless complaints. In a nutshell, there is no such thing you can't solve it, it's a time for your brain need to invent a solution.
— Nazim Ambalath
Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak.
— Dr Susan Block
...A world is supported by four things...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
— Frank Herberterbert
We can learn much from others and use that information to improve our world.
— Deana Driver
In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
With great enthusiasm and determination you will master the art in your field.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying.
— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower
Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips.
— D'Andre Lampkin
You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.
— Donald Antrim
To question what I see, then to question what I see after that, because the questions matter as much, perhaps more than, the answers.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
If you can't Change yourself,Don't Hope that other Will.
— Fahad Rashiq
Break the teacher certification monopoly so anyone with something valuable to teach can teach it. Nothing is more important than this.
— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek, 99 Question and Answers About Unschooling: The World Is Your Child's Classroom
Learning takes a lifetime and even the geniuses among us die ignorant. You should always want to learn, to grow, to improve. Otherwise what’s the point? You may as well just give up and die. There’s always new things to see, people to meet, lessons to learn. Life is both a classroom and a teacher. We’ll always be the students, never the professors.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Since by definition learning is change, when you learn nature's lessons, you are changed.
— Ron Lizzi, Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand.
— Richard Dawkins
Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power to learn is present in everyone's soul and...the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body... Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it. it isn't the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education take for granted that sight is there but that it isn't turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it appropriately.
— Plato
Life is a dance toward God, I began to think. And the dance is not so graceful as we might want. While we glide and swing out practiced sway, God crowds our feet, bumps our toes, and scuffs our shoes. So we learn to dance with the One who made us. And it is a difficult dance to learn, because its steps are foreign.
— Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part.
— L.J. Vanier
Every mistake is a new learning adventure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Blames after each failure keep lessons unlearned. When you fall, rise up quickly and learn your lessons... Blames will never make any change; applied lessons will do!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It's not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.
— Vironika Tugaleva
To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.
— Tommaso Campanella
The earlier you admit to your mistakes, the more time you would have to learn and grow from them.
Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.
— Mao Zedong
Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
September suddenly realized something. "But Ell, Orrery begins with O! How can you know so much about it?"The Wyverary soared high, his neck stretching into a long red ribbon, full of words and pies and relief and flying."I'm growing up!" he cried.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It’s truly amazing.
— Kaza Kingsley, The Secret of Ashona
Embrace high expectations from “demanding” parents if what they are demanding is your positive growth and learning.
— Jason L. Ma, Young Leaders 3.0: Stories, Insights, and Tips for Next-Generation Achievers
WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oilin studies diligent and slow,teaches himself, with painful toil,the things that other people know.
— Piet Hein
We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu is meant to serve us, not the other way around. It is meant to make you more of whatever it is you already are. It is meant to separate the wheat from the chaff. It is meant to bring to conscious attention all that once went unseen. It is meant to make you more loving. It is meant to make you more wise, but less certain. It is meant to make us humble, yet supremely confident. It is meant to remind us of our frailty while simultaneously making us feel invincible.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
If Jiu Jitsu does not make you a better father, son, mother, daughter, wife or husband, you are missing the point. If Jiu Jitsu does not leave you viewing strangers in a kinder light, you are missing the point. If you are not better equipped to deal with the vicissitudes of life due to your training, then you are not really training.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu has shown me that we are not confined to the lot which we inherit. We are not bound to these fetters eternally. They are temporal. We can transcend them should we sincerely choose to. Sincere effort is in fact the rarest virtue among man.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
I wanted to get to the most essential aspect of my being, and look around for a while. I wanted to explore what I am in my most basic self. I wanted to chip away at all of the nonsense I have acquired through my twenty-nine years on this earth. I wanted to find truth. Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. Jiu Jitsu has peeled the veil of daily life, and has shown me what lies beyond the curtain. We willingly accept the chains that circumstance forces upon us, and we grow to find comfort in them. We attach various fetters of day-to-day living to our being, and we do so with a smile. We accept these constraints for they come in the way of comfort. We accept conformity for it appears the path of least resistance. We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
I have seen far by seeing through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have exchanged a great deal of physical health for these insights, and these were trades worth making. My efforts were worth the return. I have sacrificed much in the name of this craft. Not for trophies or belts or prestige. For these fall away like dust. I pursued this art so fervently because it was not actually Jiu Jitsu I pursued. It was myself.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law
—  they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.
There was never a tutor that did professly teach Felicity, though that be the mistress of all other sciences. Nor did any of us study these things but as aliena, which we ought to have studied as our enjoyments. We studied to inform our knowledge, but knew not for what end we so studied. And for lack of aiming at a certain end we erred in the manner. Howbeit there we received all those seeds of knowledge that were afterwards improved; and our souls were awakened to a discerning of their faculties, and exercise of their powers.
— Thomas Traherne
It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for democratic citizenship.
— Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education Through Literature: Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms
...there is a danger of churning out students who are rapid processors of information but may not necessarily be more reflective, thoughtful, and able to give sustained consideration to the information that matters most.
— Karen Bohlin, Teaching Character Education Through Literature: Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms
I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...
— D. Bruce Lockerbie
Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
An arm bar in a vacuum is worthless. It is the realization of the truths which constitute that arm bar that is the real treasure we seek.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
When we learn of Him, we see the things that we do wrong, we see what things need to be corrected in our way of thinking and our way of living.
— Sunday Adelaja
The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
We must keep on learning for self-development.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
As for those who spite you, and seemingly just because, it's only evident that they're learning from you. Maybe you taste bad - kind of like medicine, kind of like truth - and to them, you're thought unsafe. There is flattery in being chewed out and spit up. Humans have always had a hard time digesting foreign things.
— Criss Jami, Healology
A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals, knowing that much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. Animals are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.
— Shannon L. Alder
Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.
— John Waters
Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action.
— J.R. Rim
Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness.
— Sunday Adelaja
Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, "He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together."Bill laughs. "And that's the best way to learn, too.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be.
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.
— Henry Kimsey-House, Co-Active Leadership: Five Ways to Lead
Learning is the heart of discipleship. You can't just take up your cross daily. You need to take up the Bible every day.
— Mark Batterson, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
The greatest fulfillment, personal development.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Don't stop learning. A time will come when your dreams will go global and you will turn and laugh at how local you've been. Start local anyway!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Acquiring of wisdom is a function of inquisitiveness for information and keenness for learning. Plenty of resource and the gravity of flow will ensure a momentum good enough for learning.
— Priyavrat Thareja
Idle hands are the devils greatest tools. But it’ll be good to notice that the tools sharpened by idle heads. You are idle because that’s the job your mind gave you!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365