“It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real lessons of fortitude that come to us by chance and from those who depend on chance. Everything contains everything else.”
“We are always learning; we just have different teachers.”
“Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.”
“Jede neue Erfahrung empfand ich physisch, als Gefühl körperlicher Erweiterung. Es gehörte dazu, daß man schon manches andere wußte, daß das Neue aber in keiner Weise dann zusammenhing. Etwas, das von allem Übrigen separiert war, siedelte sich dort an, wo vorher nichts war. Eine Türe ging plötzlich auf, wo man nichts vermutet hatte, und man fand sich in einer Landschaft mit eigenem Licht, wo alles neue Namen trug und sich weiter und weiter, bis ins Unendliche erstreckte. Da bewegte man sich nun staunend, dahin, dorthin, wie es einen gelüstete, und es war, als wâre man noch nie woanders gewesen. Wissentschaftlich wurde damals für mich zu einem Zauberwort. Es bedeutete nicht wie später, daß man sich beschränken mußte, daß man ein Recht auf etwas erwarb, indem man auf alles Übrige verzichtete, sondern es war im Gegenteil Erweiterung, Befreiung von Grenzen und Beschränkungen, wahrhaft neue Gegenden, die anders besiedelt waren, und sie waren nicht erfunden, wie in Märchen und Geschichten, wenn man ihren Namen erwähnte, waren sie nicht zu bestreiten.”
“i am not perfection i am learning per fractions of moments as they come”
“Knowledge is self –discovery.”
“Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying.”
“You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.”
“Out of Africa, there is always something new.”
“Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.”
“The earlier you admit to your mistakes, the more time you would have to learn and grow from them.”
“The most dangerous way we sabotage ourselves is by waiting for the perfect moment to begin. Nothing works perfectly the first time, or the first fifty times. Everything has a learning curve. The beginning is just that - a beginning. Surrender your desire to do it flawlessly on the first try. It s not possible. Learn to learn. Learn to fail. Learn to learn from failing. And begin today. Begin now. Stop waiting.”
“I hope that you will be faced with difficult choices and decisions, trials that won’t undo you, but that will drive you toward reflection and understanding. Trust that your fears will sometimes tell you about your desires. You will see that you can survive the terror that comes with growth and change, with vulnerability and risk.”
“WHO IS LEARNED? A definition One who, consuming midnight oil in studies diligent and slow, teaches himself, with painful toil, the things that other people know.”
“Education isn t what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it, like putting sight into blind eyes...The power to learn is present in everyone s soul and...the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body... Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively be made to do it. it isn t the craft of putting sight into the soul. Education take for granted that sight is there but that it isn t turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect it appropriately.”
“If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.”
“Discipline is a bridge built through everyday action.”