All Quotes By Tag: Learning

“I have lived knowing nothing of the forest so there is nothing I can teach you. Go into the wild. Know the world….”

“I want to learn more and more. The more I know, the more I see a brand-new world.”

“There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.”

“So engrained in the human heart is the desire to believe that some people really do know what they say they know, and can thus save them from the trouble of thinking for themselves, that in a short time would-be philosophers and faddists became more powerful than ever, and gradually led their countrymen to accept all those absurd views of life, some account of which I have given in my earlier chapters. Indeed I can see no hope for the Erewhonians till they have got to understand that reason uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct uncorrected by reason.”

“Education is not only a process of learning, it’s a way of life”

“Even if yesterday was wildly successful, I still don’t want to repeat it. Rather, I want to build on it.”

“I believe in study. I believe that men learn much through study. As a matter of fact, it has been my observationthat they learn little concerning things as they are, as they were, or as they are to come without study. I alsobelieve, however, and know, that learning by study is greatly accelerated by faith.”

“We are not born with abilities, this comes from practice, persistence, and perseverance.”

“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.”

“Failure isn’t bad if it doesn’t attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn’t go to the head.”

“Everything the candle knows it learned in the dark.”

“An uninformed judgement, even when right, is often less useful than a reasoned view, even when wrong, that can then be dissected, examined, and corrected.”

“Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.”

“To learn is to broaden, to experience more, to snatch new aspects of life for yourself. To refuse to learn or to be relieved at not having to learn is to commit a form of suicide; in the long run, a more meaningful type of suicide than the mere ending of physical life. Knowledge is not only power; it is happiness, and being taught is the intellectual analog of being loved.”

“Life is the only thing that can prepare you for life, and even then, you’re unprepared for it.”