“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”
“Very often it has come to my mind what men of learning there were formerly throughout England..and how nowadays...we would have to seek them outside...Thanks be to God Almighty that we now have any supply of teachers at all!...As often as you can, free yourself from worldly affairs so that you may apply that wisdom which God gave you wherever you can. Remember what punishments befell us in this world when we ourselves didn t cherish learning nor transmit it to other men.”
“Travel means a lot of learning experience to me .”
“Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.”
“Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life.”
“Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.”
“I ve never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can t arrange a library in alphabetical order until you ve collected one.”
“We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gathering appropriate learning experiences and awakening our minds to observe, evaluate, and recall what we experience.”
“Learning is experiential! The more I experience the more I learn. I love this interdependent process!”
“This book is dedicated to all the students I ve known over the years who ve taught me humility and what it means to really be a kid.”
“It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.”
“You have to know you don’t know before you can know.”
“Beautiful is what we see, More Beautiful is what we know, most Beautiful by far is what we don t”
“Good listening places us on an edifice of learning complex human behavior.”
“There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity.”
“Love and learning are similar in that they can never be wasted.”
“For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.”