Quotes about Learning

"Sometimes God allows a relative or fellow worker to cause us problems in order to exercise our patience and humbleness; however, instead of being grateful for the chance God gives us, we react and refused to be cured.  It is like refusing to pay the doctor who is giving us a shot when we are ill."

Father Paisios Eznepides (+1994)

The wise are not learned; the learned are not wise.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

Some people learn from their mistakes, others avoid making many mistakes by learning from the mistakes of others.

Hillel said, do not separate from the community, do not trust yourself till the day you die, do not judge your fellow until you reach his place, do not make a statement which cannot be understood which will [only] later be understood, and do not say when I have free time I will learn, lest you not have free time.

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

A fire has risen above my tombstone hat.
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability.
I want this music and this dawn and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

In our society, confidence leads to knowledge - which leads to power - which leads to pride - which leads to a fear of seeming ignorant - which constricts learning like an iron vice.  We must understand that confidence is a blessing, for it is the embodiment of self-love, and through it we find the fuel for innovation and progress.  We must realize that ignorance is merely the opportunity to learn more.  And lastly, we must marvel rather than groan at the fact that there will always be more to learn...
Only then will we be free of the intellectual prisons we have so readily caged ourselves within.

If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance.

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday school. These are the things I learned: Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.  The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.  Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.  Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.  Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.  Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.  And it is true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten.  Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - look.

Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Learn about your inner self from those who know such things,
but don't repeat verbatim what they say.

Jesus taught us many things. But so did Muhammad and Buddha and countless others. You don't need priests or prophets to teach you. People and events in your life can teach you.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world.  Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in. 

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

It is one thing to remember, another to know.  To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory.  But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher.  "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this."  Let there be space between you and the book.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

When you stumble...make it part of the dance.

You don't always need what you want, and you don't always want what you need.

You can't put people in boxes, and you can't fit life into compartments.

Be a life long learner, not a life long student. You can't rob the world of your mind.

A wise and wonderful woman once walked many miles in her own shoes across this great earth.
She walked with great love for those she had not yet reached, those she had not yet embraced.
She saw the path of all to be varied but the same.
She saw not difference in those, but in common.
She saw not religion but light.
She saw not creed or color, but smiles.
She saw not suffering but joy, not pain but relief.

Once she was asked: "Will you join our anti-war rally?"
She replied: "No. I must continue my journey, for it is the journey of all humanity. BUT... if you organise a pro-peace rally, please invite me."

That which you face now is the very outcome of this moment.

Face not your toils but your rewards.
Face not those who would tread upon your efforts, but those who would beifit from your encouraging smile.
Face not those who look down, but down to those who might rise to meet you.

BUT MOST OF ALL: Face not your fears, but your LOVE, so that others may seek to free their bonds of struggle and join you on that hilltop to share your view...