I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

A good teacher does something more than teaching; he makes you start learning.

Time doesn’t conceal anything, it tells the future what you did in the past, so prepare well in order to score extra marks.

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew...

It doesn`t hurt to get more education.

I grew up listening to my mother scoff at all the T.V shows and books that I watched or read. She told me how it was all ‘rubbish’ and ‘garbage’. But the thing is, I think somehow, watching along the show I also grew up. I know everyone says that, like when Good Luck Charlie...

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

I heard this story once,” she said, “where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin’ stuff about the universe and everythin’ from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge.””What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg?” said Granny.”Bugger...

Books were her refuge. Having set herself to learn the Russian language, she read every Russian book she could find. But French was the language she preferred, and she read French books indiscriminately, picking up whatever her ladies-in-waiting happened to be reading. She always kept a book in her room and carried another in her...

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don’t have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you’d better be a really fast learner

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle.

learning the Holocaust meant to scare you but to deepen your understanding of the world.

I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

each year India produces thousands upon thousands of eighteen-year olds who have little to no instructed idea of the last sixty years of Indian history. They have no idea if or how those five-year plans worked. They have no idea if or how the Non-Aligned Movement worked. They have no idea about the numerous wars...

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it to be, but how they expect to be, in order to achieve it.

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we’re taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

The natural flow of the Universe is designed to always take us to our place of learning; sometimes painful, sometimes joyful but always the place that gives us needed experience and wisdom

The educated don’t get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn’t glorify people, we must hear each other’s stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

We don’t really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

I was learning the ropes, and the [congressional] redistricting map came out, … I saw it, and sitting in the middle of the new district was Trumbull County.

The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they’ll teach you what you don’t want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness.

I am looking at how trees can be so small and why it happens. I am also learning about the soil.

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

Don’t let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

Reading is the Feeding that your mind has been Needing,

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

After bearing the consequences of a mistake, the person either becomes a better person or completely succumbs to the atrocity.

Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don’t know everything whereas specialists think they do.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

…to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Learning is not the sole purpose of our existence, but if you can’t even cope with that then what will you ever achieve?

You have to make your own condensed notes. You learn from MAKING them. A lot of thinking goes into deciding what to include and exclude. You develop your own system of abbreviations and memory methods for the information.

Ambient sounds, especially with words, occupy about 5-10% of your intellectual bandwidth.By wearing ear protectors, you acoustically isolate yourself. This freed up bandwidth can now be focused on the desired task.It’s a great deal. Just put on some earmuffs and you become 5-10% smarter.

Our research with young people shows that they really prefer experiential learning, which means they prefer to hear from someone who was there (about) what it was like, rather than read about it from a textbook or communicated by a third party. They remember more and understand it much more.

The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption –pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

Science has an unfortunate habit of discovering information politicians don’t want to hear, largely because it has some bearing on reality.

We learn to do by doing.

The most important skill for a new recruit from university will be the ability to learn.

Finding the reason to live doesn’t put you on top, it’s the hardships faced in process that get you there.

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to furnish it.

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

That’s your opportunity–to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

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.