Learning Quotes - Page 14

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

The quest for learning is the quest for self-discovery.

Don't leave the classroom of pain without gathering wisdom from its instruction.

True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.

Wake up with a purpose and make every effort to succeed. Many people spend their lives just going through the motions. They are satisfied with their daily routines or habitual lifestyles. Don't be complacent with those activities. Challenge yourself to be better, do greater things.

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

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.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

Give someone you wronged a chance to express their true feelings and learn about yourself and your shortcomings.

Truth was never meant to make you comfortable, unless you stand in the middle of it with acceptance.

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

If you are still breathing, do not stop learning.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.

Keep calm and keep learning.

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

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 andlearn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sadness that comes to us without warning.

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.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

You must endure willingly for the fulfillment dreams

The love for books is a paradise.

He’d no longer be a grade-motivated person. He’d be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no external pushing to learn. His push would come from inside. He’d be a free man. He wouldn’t need a lot of discipline to shape him up. In fact, if the instructors assigned him were slacking on the job he would be likely to shape them up by asking rude questions. He’d be there to learn something, would be paying to learn something and they’d better come up with it.Motivation of this sort, once it catches hold, is a ferocious force...

The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.

It can be done. It will be done.

Self-study is the key to success.

So many parents think they always need to teach their children about life, when in fact, if they listened once in a while, they would learn from their kids what life is truly about.

The test of successful education is not the amount of knowledge that pupils take away from school, but their appetite to know and their capacity to learn.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

..be able and willing to action regardless of all trauma, all the No’s, and non-supporters one could headache and pain on.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

People will try to frustrate you in life. But you have to decide to stay focus and determined to realize your goal.

When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this. In the end your mind gets to welcome that deadening. that's what I believe anyway. Half of our memoryloss is by choice.

I know nothing, so I study.

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.

To read is to renew thy mind.

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.

Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.

It is better to be creative than curious.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

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.

Life is a teacher. We are the student.

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism andcompromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting itinstead into meek subservience to authority.

Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our friends and family.

Read good books to improve your life.

Experience gives the greatest lessons of life.

i am learning that when love wants to stay it will stay.i am learning that when love wants to go it will go.

Why, then,' answered the squire, 'I am very sorry you have given him so much learning; for, if he cannot get his living by that, it will rather spoil him for anything else; and your other son, who can hardly write his name, will do more at ploughing and sowing, and is in a better condition, than he.' And indeed so it proved; for the poor lad, not finding friends to maintain him in his learning, as he had expected, and being unwilling to work, fell to drinking, though he was a very sober lad before; and in a short time, partly with grief, and partly with good liquor, fell into a consumption, and died.

School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don’t want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers…

I feel ashamed that so many of us cannot imagine a better way to do things than locking children up all day in cells instead of letting them grow up knowing their families, mingling with the world, assuming real obligations, striving to be independent and self-reliant and free.

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

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.

LearningTo believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

Let there be a child, who should,not be taught. Let there be a child, who should,be refrained from books. Let him not hear, don’t preach him, dear. Don’t let him read the quotations,on internet and make them his passion. Don’t tell him stories of successful,and make them his anthem.Allow him to grow unto what,he is to know.

If one comes to the sense that they have arrived, they no longer feel the need to submit themselves to the process of learning and growing. This is a dangerous mindset to carry. The day that we stop learning is the day we stop living.

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition.