The knowledge of all things is possible

I shouldn’t have to have extra things in order to make learning happen. My extra things just make school more fun.

We all mess up. It’s what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Moral maturity and freedom require more than mere adherence to the law; they require an understanding of the why and wherefore of its rules and regulations- the principles that make it worthy of their allegiance.

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some...

Will raised both eyebrows. ‘Well, you learn a new thing everyday,’ he said reflectively.’In your case, that’s no exaggeration,’ Halt said, completely straight-faced.

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning.

By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song. Only two or three...

Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects...

…knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That’s why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly.

In a 1968 study of daily life in classrooms, Philip W. Jackson wrote that students spend as much as 50 percent of their time waiting for something to happen. They wait for teachers to pass...

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn’t it time you turned the page?

I’ve learned that it’s OK to be flawed.

A learned man who doesn’t restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.

How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation...

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of “learning to read,” we postpone “reading to learn” – learning itself – by years.

The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise....

I’m always learning something. Learning never ends.

The longer you pause to process surprising or negative feedback, the more likely you are to learn from it.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to...

It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver’s will, before...

It’s kind of a huge learning lab for us.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live…. [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into...

You are not your mistakes and your mistakes are not you.

There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source.

When freedom prevails, the ingenuity and inventiveness of people creates incredible wealth. This is the source of the natural improvement of the human condition.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud, the obnoxious, those that noisily stake their claims in your territory and everywhere else they set foot on. This is the blueprint of a...

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

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...

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren’t prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don’t want to hear.

As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck.

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.