Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned...

Ask and wait expectantly for the answer.

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life–the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians...

The world of books is my fantasy.

What you learn is your personal treasure. No one can take it away from you.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

Be true to your authenticity and innovate with brave ammunition.

A lighthouse is kind of like an angel. Most of the people the light helps take it for granted. Until it’s not there.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth...

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.

If life is a classroom then you’re still in the learning process part. In the learning process part, if you make a mistake you can just erase it and try again. In a classroom your...

The mystery of the MAGIC BATHROOM will be revealed unto thee.

For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration...

It’s learning on the run.

It is better to learn late than never.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success...

It’s like starting back all over again from, like, Pop Warner. You’re in the meeting room learning the new stuff, and when you go to the field, you just try to remember what you learned...

LSD stands out for learning to slow down.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child’s finest teachers.

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.

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God’s valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn’t know what it is...

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...

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” ~(Albert Einstein)

Please explain the problem to me slowly, as I do not understand things quickly.

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze at Gershon, and Gershon did not look away. “I will tell you, Loran what is...

People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school....

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

We pray God would do it our way; we should pray we would do it God’s way!

File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner?The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we...

So long as we learn it doesn’t matter who teaches us, does it?

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Of course we’ll win. And even if we were to lose, we’d win at losing.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I’m still learning. A leader is that person who knows everything, who’s been experienced. I don’t know if I’m that experienced to teach anybody yet. I’m still taking lessons from somebody like Chucky [Atkins], somebody...

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you’ll learn and apply!

Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire’s apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.

Simply put: Epistemic games recreate in game form the things that people do in the real world to learn to think in innovative and creative ways about problems that matter.