Learning Quotes

... and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself come alive, but also for you,because I’d like this to mean something.To not disappear with the dark I will enter one day and so now I will tell.If not for you, then for my own heart, because it tells me to,and I'm learning to listen.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

~ Charlotte Brontë

There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

~ Osho

We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wounded by it. We tend to forget its authority - that it is a double-edged sword. Our decrepit, depraved hearts must be completely ripped out in order to welcome that of God.

~ Criss Jami

It all takes time and lessons and places, but I’m learning to listen to my restless heart, telling me to “go, go, go!

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

~ Peter David

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be reminded of it and invited to it and reminded of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Without making mistakes, there won't be lessons learned. Without getting hurt, there won't be knowledge gained. The only way we grow is by learning from the past. Always be willing to learn and grow daily. It's how we come to know who we are and what we are made of.

~ Kemi Sogunle

I only need to survive on tea, bread and fruits. I can keep working.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must seek to thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to be doing their best work. They are trying to be productive at some of the most stressful times of their lives. What if companies took this unhappy collision of life events seriously? They could offer Gottman’s intervention as a benefit for every newly married, or newly pregnant, employee.

~ John Medina

Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our friends and family.

~ John Corey Whaley

My father would laugh behind my back to other family members whenever he heard I was doing something knew. “He wrote a book, what does he know about writing a book? What school did he go to, to be writing a book?” While he laughed and asked about my credentials, I to laughed because what someone would go to school for, I could simply go on YouTube, search the web or simply read a book from someone who’s done it before me.

~ James Jean-Pierre

The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.

~ Lauren Machta

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.

~ Criss Jami

Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we might keep it stronger, Elated, rather than so tilted or feeble!!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning.

~ Deyth Banger

Learning is the way to keep your mind flowing, and hence your life flowing

~ Pearl Zhu

The fear of failure has no business in a mind that bears the willingness to learn and grow from all events of failures.

~ Hafiz

The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching, HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

~ Idries Shah

Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables us to shift the winds of luck, reshape the forces of fate or destiny, and, ultimately, empower us to become free authors of our own lives, for the true art of human expression is the ability to express our dreams, thoughts, and emotions as we feel them or as they come to mind, as we search for universal equality, justice, peace, love, truth, and reality.

~ Martin Guevara Urbina

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

~ Idries Shah

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

~ Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

~ Lolly Daskal

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

~ Idries Shah

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

~ Idries Shah

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

~ Idries Shah

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be deformed.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

~ Idries Shah