All Quotes By Tag: Learning
“Wisdom comes from understanding knowledge.”
“Wisdom comes from knowing what to do with the knowledge that you have learnt.”
“We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.”
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“My will cannot be bent, but my reasoning can be swayed.”
“The wisdom of Buddha is not written in stone, but in truth.”
“I am a worried person with a stressed-out soul, living a simple life with no capital. I am gathering knowledge in every corner I can with the abilities I have. I’m reading philosophy, politics, history and fiction. Greek tragedies and the arctic waste. I’m studying psychology, economics, plant-based nutrition and I’m writing essays and manifestos, chasing bigger names with bigger frames, to ask a question or two, and I am learning to lead.I am reading to take the lead.Lead who? Myself. My own life. My own future. I’m not chasing you, or them, or anyone else; I am chasing me.”
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“KODO SAWAKI: Studying originally meant aspiring to discover the meaning of life. These days studying has become all about getting a job.”
“When you do exams, always remember the order in which to do the questions.1 – easy questions, first2 – medium questions, next3 – hard questions, lastIf you do it in any other order, you run the risk of running out of time.”
“I have brought peace to this land, and security,” he began.”And what of your soul, when you use the cleverness of argument to cloak such acts? Do you think that the peace of a thousand cancels out the unjust death of one single person? It may be desirable, it may win you praise from those who have happily survived you and prospered from your deeds, but you have committed ignoble acts, and have been too proud to own them. I have waited patiently here, hoping that you would come to me, for if you understood, then some of your acts would be mitigated. But instead you send me this manuscript, proud, magisterial, and demonstrating only that you have understood nothing at all.””I returned to public life on your advice, madam,” he said stiffly.”Yes; I advised it. I said if learning must die it should do so with a friend by its bedside. Not an assassin.”
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“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
“I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have paid.”
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit’s fur!)”
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“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”
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“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.”
“It’s not him who’s disturbed. But he likes to disturb others–to shake them out of their rut.”