T Quotes
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“The student asked: Master, I went from temple to temple, but I still haven't been enlightened! The master replied: Well, try the opposite then; don't go door to door, sit down, let's see what happens!”
“The student asked: Master, if a terrible storm comes here one day, our temple will be destroyed, I am very scared, we must make the temple stronger! The master replied: Do not be afraid, for you are already destroyed before the storm comes!”
“The student asked: Master, if I have to choose between being a surfer and being a wave, which one should I be? The master answered: Be the wind, then you will go beyond the shore!”
“The student asked: Master, no matter what I do, I can't reach my target, I'm tired, what should I do? The master replied: Set where you are currently standing as your new target and you have now reached your target! Everything ends in the mind!”
“The student asked: Master, what should I do if I stay in the fog and lose my path? The master replied: Just sit down and wait, for it is not you who lost your path but the fog! When the fog finds its way and leaves you, you will find your way too!”
“The student asked: Master, what should I do if I suddenly encounter a tiger in the forest? The master replied: Do the same thing you would do if you suddenly encounter a tiger inside this temple!”
“The student asked: Master, what should I do when I enter a calm and quiet street? The master answered: Do not do what you are doing now, keep your mouth shut and your mind open!”
“The student asked: Master, what would you do if your shadow suddenly left you? Were you afraid? The master replied: No! I would rejoice for my shadow that he was finally freed from imitating me!”
“The student asked: Master, when will the aliens contact us? The master replied: How do you know that they have not contacted us? Maybe I'm an alien too! How do you know I'm not an alien?”
“The student asked: Master, when will wisdom visit me? The master replied: Six years later he will visit at 6:45 pm on a Wednesday! The student answered: But master, this answer didn't make much sense to me! The master answered: So is the question you asked!”
“The student asked: Master, would you be angry with me if one day I become more knowledgeable than you? The master replied: I will be angry if you do not become more knowledgeable than me one day!”
“The student asked: Master, you always talk to me about real power, but you don't tell me what it is! What is real power? The master replied: The real power is not getting to the top that you so desperately want to get to, but having the strength to let go of that top without blinking an eye!”
“The student asked: Master, you know this river very well, where is the fish most abundant? The master replied: Where there are plenty of fish, you won't gain anything by catching a lot of fish, anything but fish! I'll tell you where the fish are the least, go there, if you catch fish there you will not only have caught fish, you will also gain wisdom because the flower of wisdom grows in the land of difficulties!”
“The student asked: What should I be, master? River, ocean, lake or mountain or what? The master replied: Be unique! There are already many rivers, many oceans, many lakes; be something different because the world needs diversity not uniformity; it needs something nonesuch with incomparable talents!”
“The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.”
“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”
“The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.”
“The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.”
“The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.”
Source: Hyperion
“The student is best taught who is told the least”
“The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.”
Source: God in the Dock
“The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.”
Source: Caring, a Feminine Approach to Ethics & Moral Education
“The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.”
Source: Medical Education in the United States and Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
“The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.”
“The student must be allowed to develop his thinking ability and creativity, instead of repressing them from an early age.”
Source: Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism
“The student must have a very humble state of mind and also must be very inquisitive.”
“The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”
“The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.”
Source: The Penguin Stephen Leacock
“The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view the phenomena from a sufficiently high biological standpoint. To me, at least, they seem to attach too much importance to individual rulers and soldiers, and to particular wars, policies, religions, and customs; while at the same time they make little attempt to extract the fundamental causes of national success or failure.”
“The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.”
Source: A History of the Borgias
“The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.”
“The student of mathematics must get rid of all arbitrary thinking and follow purely the demands of thought. In thinking in this way, the laws of the spiritual world flow into him. This regulated thinking leads to the most spiritual truths.”
“The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The student of Nature wonders the more and is astonished the less, the more conversant he becomes with her operations; but of all the perennial miracles she offers to his inspection, perhaps the most worthy of admiration is the development of a plant or of an animal from its embryo.”
Source: Collected essays
“The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The student’s biggest problem was a slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and- whip grading, a mule mentality which said, "If you don’t whip me, I won’t work." He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work. And the cart of civilization, which he supposedly was being trained to pull, was just going to have to creak along a little slower without him.
This is a tragedy, however, only if you presume that the cart of civilization, "the system," is pulled by mules. This is a common, vocational, "location" point of view, but it’s not the Church attitude.
The Church attitude is that civilization, or "the system" or "society" or whatever you want to call it, is best served not by mules but by free men. The purpose of abolishing grades and degrees is not to punish mules or to get rid of them but to provide an environment in which that mule can turn into a free man.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“The student should bear in mind that the very essence of consciousness is constantly to identify itself with the Not-Self, and as constantly to re-assert itself by rejecting the Not-Self. Consciousness, in fact, consists of this alternating assertion and negation - "I am this" - "I am not this." Hence consciousness is, and causes in matter, the attracting and repelling that we call a vibration.”
“The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.”
“The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues 'non-negotiable demands' may have some of his demands met by a permissive university administration. But the greater his 'victory' the more he will have undermined the security of his own rights.”
“The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.”
Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases
“The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed by the great philosopher of France to begin by doubting of his own existence. In like manner, whoever would complete any arduous and intricate enterprise, should, as soon as his imagination can cool after the first blaze of hope, place before his own eyes every possible embarrassment that may retard or defeat him. He should first question the probability of success, and then endeavour to remove the objections that he has raised.”
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
“The student will try to defy the master. Always.”
“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”
“The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating.”
Source: The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
“The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.”
Source: Magick: In Theory and Practice
“The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.”
“The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.”
“The students always, always surprise me.”
“The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.”
“The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.”