Learning Quotes - Page 26

• One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Reading, People

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Reading

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art

  Kenwa Mabuni

  Inspirational, Art, Future

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• If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

  Marie Clay

  Education, Teacher, Children

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• If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!

  S. R. Ranganathan

  Inspirational, Library, Overcoming

  S. R. Ranganathan (2006). “The Five Laws of Library Science”, Ess Ess Publications

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• You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Real, Writing, Exercise

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• Failure is success if we learn from it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Spiritual

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• We learn not in the school, but in life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, School, Thought Provoking

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• Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Life, Education, Truth

  "The Evolution of India".

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• The more you teach positive ideas to others, the better you learn them yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Teaching, Positivity

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2016

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• We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Brother, Yoga

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• No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Nov 04, 2014

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• if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Hate, Two

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  If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Motivational, Trust

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015

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• The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

  Pico Iyer

  Falling In Love, Time, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from Dec 01, 2012

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• If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

  Benjamin Carson

  Education, Sports, Country

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• To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.

  Sylvia Plath

  Women, Laughing, Stupidity

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• Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Life, Wisdom, Stars

  "Socialism in One Galaxy?" by Nicole Colson, socialistworker.org. September 15, 2016.

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• You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love, Forgiveness, Kindness

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.108, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Life, Change, Letting Go

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  Wendell Willkie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Education

  Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “Freedom and the Liberal Arts”

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• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Knowing, Vision

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