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“There was never a tutor that did professly teach Felicity, though that be the mistress of all other sciences. Nor did any of us study these things but as aliena, which we ought to have studied as o...”
“Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.”
“You don't know what you don't know”
“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.”
“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.”
“Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are within us. Our learning starts as soon as we are born.Excerpt from "Living in Ligh...”
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.”
“Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.”
“Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.”
“None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.”
“Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.”
“After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.”
“I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of ...”
“Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.”
“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
“One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek s...”
“Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom.”
“Dark night lay on my eyes, like a veil of black cloves - dust on my feet, at the beginning of the path of knowledge.Tracer from an invisible hand, a rainbow, fell in my thoughts - I encountered the...”
“You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.”
“The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. A...”
