542 quotes found
“Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.”
“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”
“Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)”
“People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds," she says, uttering the phrase as if secrets to the universe have just been shared. "Perhaps that is how learning can help you. ...”
“Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.”
“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 inv...”
“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 how th...”
“The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.”
“I am but a man learning his way in this crazy life.”
“How many things can I do without?”
“Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner”
“. . . I feel we dont really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you cant learn from your...”
“Everybody learns from their own mistakes.The wise learn from mistakes others make.”
“For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.”
“Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too.”
“The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.”
“To me, the smarter you are, the more you want to learn - Ernie Accorsi”
“It is a full-time job to cope with alien elements from both interpersonal sources and societal influences.”
“If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds.”
“Next time you try to do something and fail, and it really was partly in your control, be honest aboutwhy you failed--but also, what you can do better in the future. It's easy to see that blamingcir...”