If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

Every day is filled with spectacular moments. Seek them!

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That’s how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything by him or her, read it over again until they understand...

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one’s own follies.

Pick the paper off the floor, throw it in the trash, study—even if you think you already know the subject, say thank you for an act of kindness, and be the support you want to...

He was saying that I’m learning the role he was five or six years ago. So he understands. The triangle is different. You need four or five guys to understand what’s really going on to...

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend...

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

You haunt my days and dreams.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

When it comes to learning success, action is your school, and failure your teacher.

Even though life is difficult as times, you must understand that these challenges are not here to beat you, defeat you, or squash you like a bug. Life is not against you (even though it...

She probably doesn’t even realize it yet, but this is an educational year for her. She’s learning the ropes, learning that she can pitch with anybody out there.

I wouldn’t underrate the power of regret. It doesn’t feel good… But it’s hard to learn anything important without it.

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

I had a professor one time… He said, ‘Class, you will forget almost everything I will teach you in here, so please remember this: that God spoke to Balaam through his ass, and He has...

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

Without setbacks and mistakes, no experience. Without experience, no learning. And without learning, you’ll never truly understand the awakening of your heart’s desires.

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

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

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

It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.

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...

Learning to fail is a virtue. Failing to learn is a sin.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.

If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated — people take note.

You don’t read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses...

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Well we are nothing if not re-inventive. With every life experience we learn what to not do ever again and how to adapt to our current situations. We are always learning about ourselves and changing....

Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new...

He never had the daily repetitions of a mike learning curve, the reads, the reactions, the fits and drills. It was kind of a season in learning. When he began to start to play pretty...

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.

It’s been a good spring. It’s been a learning process, obviously, with some of the new things that we put in.

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn’t climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the other side enlightened.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it’s a secret.

What you don’t know can make you fail! Perhaps the only reason why you are where you are is that, you’ve not known what you have to know… Go, learn and take the lead!

I don’t think they’re cost-effective at this point. But a program like this — this learning by doing — can lower the costs in the long run.

They say: ‘Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer, where there were gods of the sky and the Earth, the...