Quotes Tagged "learning"

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked. Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.