Saying of the ProphetInk and BloodThe ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.

I remember loving pencils. I was fond of paper. I loved the small of textbooks. I loved the way the light from a desk lamp was bright on a page. I loved the smell of...

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds

We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

People can only grow, stagnate, or regress. Which one are you doing? I’m both growing and stagnating, because I’m learning every day, so I’m growing, but since learning has become a habit and I do...

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding

Life without death simply isn’t life, but death

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

No, you”.

It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.

Learn to discover your divine potential.

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

No matter what, you can only live this moment.

Lest you forget the strong develop and improve the weak get frantic digress and deviate

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn’t seem to like...

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

I simply stepped out of the way and maintained my courage and my position in the face of constant disagreement, voiced opinion and attack. I held true and I stood my ground. I maintained my...

The only teacher that’s worth anything to you is your enemy.

Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he’s got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I’ll have to wait a second though. He’s got to close a deal out...

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form...

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit...

I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim...

I was more than my limitations; I was learning

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.

Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens,...

Learning is by nature curiosity… prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is...

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue …

It’s always easier to learn something than to use what you’ve learned. . . . You’re alone when you’re learning. But you always use it on other people. It’s different when there are other people...

Speak kindly to and of yourself.

You never know. I’m sure she’s down about it. She’s only 16 and she’s going to keep learning. She’s got a lot of pressure on her, but she handled herself well out there.

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Share a book and you’ll make a friend!

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don’t remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes,...

It is arguable that when Humanists, “Shook off,” as people say, “the trammels of religion,” and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right… they began to lose the finer...

An education is truly “fitted for freedom” only if it is such as to produce free citiens, citizen who are free not because of wealth or birth, they can call their minds their own. Male...

I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?