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Everyone is always learning something new," my father would remind me when he checked to see if I was doing my homework and found me gazing out the window at the stars. "If not, why be alive?

Marjorie Agosín

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

Idries Shah

What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their next lives. I alsolike another aspect of it: that negative experiences teach us as much as positive experiences do; sometimes they teach us more.

Daniela I. Norris

❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞

Sarah Caldwell

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

Michelle Hodkin

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

Charlotte Eriksson

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

Tim Fargo

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

Idries Shah

... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one day, one day, someone out there would hear and recognise her or himself and I could let them know that they are not alone. Just like that song I had on repeat for several nights as I walked lonely on empty streets, let me know that I was notaloneand that’s how it starts.

Charlotte Eriksson

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Idries Shah

Life is a balanced system of learning, adjusting, and evolving. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

Steve Maraboli

My feet," said Montag. "I can't move them. I feel so damn silly. My feet won't

Ray Bradbury

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Maria Shriver

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

David W. Earle

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Mark Twain

There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!

Israelmore Ayivor

Life is a learning experience and this is a very peaceful method of accepting the reality you face…”What will I learn?

David W. Earle

[T]he more critical lesson I learned that day is still one too many kids never figure out: don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Sonia Sotomayor

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I looked up at him, rain blending into my tears, ''Michael listen! You told me once that when you thought of life, you thought of this big ship in the middle of the sea and all the dangers and risks and stuff... but you also told me that love is a risk and that has to be treasured and shown in the brightest light. Well honey, love is apart of life. And if you're too afraid to risk loving me, than you won't have me, because the only thing I'll ever do is live.

Maddie Hample

I knew that iridium-193 was one of two stable isotopes of iridium, a very rare, very dense metal, but I didn't know that the periodic table even existed.I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.I'd picked up a few Latin words, and a smattering of Elvish, but my French was non-existent.I'd read more than one book of more than one thousand pages (more than once), but I wouldn't have been able to identify a metaphor if it poked me in the eye.By secondary-school standards, I was quite a dunce.

Gavin Extence

The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

Idries Shah

What you learn from others you can use to follow.What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

Richard Hamming

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.

Neil Postman

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.

Greek Proverb

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

John Lubbock

The great thing about remote or dead masters is that they can't refuse you as an apprentice. You can learn whatever you want from them. They left their lesson plans in their work.

Austin Kleon

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

Amy Neftzger

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in a hotel over Christmas. It is most certainly not the reason why it is called 'hotel', but it will hopefully help you remember that the stress is actually on the second syllable.

Jakub Marian

Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and teachers, and what is it that they—who taught you so much—were unable to teach you? And, he decided, It was the Self whose meaning and nature I wished to learn. It was the Self I wished to escape from, wished to overcome. But I was unable to overcome it, I could only trick it, could only run away from it and hide. Truly, not a single thing in all the world has so occupied my thoughts as this Self of mine, this riddle: that I am alive and that I am One, am different and separate from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And there is not a thing in the world about which I know less than about myself, about Siddhartha!

Hermann Hesse

Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

Scott Meyers

Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 3).

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks.

Dee-Williams

The truth to succeeding at leadership is recognizing that it’s a never-ending journey of discovery and learning.

Tanveer Naseer

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

Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words “village” and “age” whatsoever.

Jakub Marian

The whole bloated sensation of success is wiped clean when among family. There is no pressure of being looked upon as 'the brilliant one' but rather the comforts of always being the pupil.

Criss Jami

Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.

David duChemin

Reflection and learning are lifelong processes...

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.

Alexei Maxim Russell

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

L.M. Montgomery

We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.

Baltasar Gracián

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

Beth Ramsay

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Idries Shah

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

Dave Kellett

It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember that it is pronounced with something close to 'ʌoo'.

Jakub Marian

The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

Rob Liano

Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.

Love The Stacks Bookstore

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

Shannon L. Alder

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Idries Shah

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Idries Shah

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Idries Shah

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Idries Shah

Words have to die if humans are to live.

Idries Shah

Only a self-taught man can teach others

Girish Kohli

Only a self-learnt man can teach others

Girish Kohli

Only a self-learnt man can reach others.

Girish Kohli

If you learn to look at the worldly madness through spiritual eyes, you will begin to see divine balance and sanity.

Bryant McGill

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