“Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That’s why it’s good to be able to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.”
“Learning means change and change is usually difficult.”
“He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M’Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within—or sometimes only maim him and distort him!”
“Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.”
“Latin [...], it was the sign of being able to detach yourself from here and now, abstract your understanding of words, train your memory and live solitary in your head with only books for company. So it was meant to be hard, but I found it wonderfully easy, for just these reasons. I fell in love with Latin.”
“No knowledge comes from the outside world or an imaginary supernatural paradise.”
“Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to know how to fan them the right way.”
“I find learning to be the most valuable of all the treasures in the world. It s priceless.”
“Knowledge is like the sky - limitless. It depends on you whether you want to learn how to acquire wings and fly or get on a plane and soar. The faster you rise to pick up knowledge, the quicker your success!!”
“Prejudice is learned. What will you teach others through your actions and words?”
“What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!”
“Feeling your way to knowledge rather than thinking your way, often results in better learning.”
“To come devotedly into the depths of a subject, your respect for it increasing in every step and your whole heart weakening apart with shame upon yourself in your dealing with it : To know at length better and better and at length into the bottom of your soul your unworthiness of it : Let me hope in any case that it is something to have begun to learn.”
“I am young to learn.”
“One of the reasons people and animals share such a close relationship is that people have always learned important lessons from animals: what to eat, and what not to eat; when it is safe, or when there is danger about. Have you ever walked in a park or forest where there were no birds singing and no small animals to be seen? It s unsettling, isn t it? Where have the birds gone? And why did they leave? Often, animals can warn us of trouble before we are able to detect it for ourselves. Many people have been saved from fires by their pets, who, sensing the danger early, woke their owners and allowed them to get to safety. By carefully watching animals and their behavior, people can learn, and have learned, a great deal about their environment.”
“A great teacher will invite every student to learn and to participate and inspire more and more learning.”
“Learning is as much an attitude as it is an activity.”