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“What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.”

World Way May Children Different School Learning Be Good Different Ways Grades Gifted Grades In School Good Grades

Author:Chuck Grassley

“one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.”

Writing States Learning Defiance

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.”

Learning Cutting Goes On

Author:Fay Weldon

“Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.”

Littles Learning Fire Ignorance Return Tasks

Author:Bayard Taylor

“most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.”

People Knows Feels Made Care Education Learning Taught Ignorant

Book:Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

Source: Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979

“The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.”

Trying Book Learning Teacher Experience Patterns Conform

Book:The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings

“We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge.”

Truth Emotion Steps Learning Awareness Happenings Universal Arise Refuge Things Change Universal Truth Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.”

World Wells Body Past Change Differences Worry Learning Future Quiet Eternal Witness Stillness

Author:Robert Adams

“There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.”

Feels Firsts Heart Children Able Parent Pleasure Learning Seeing Objects Mortals Enjoyed Thrilling

Author:Sarah Josepha Hale

“Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures. After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.”

Knows Needs Should Doe Important Book God Order Realizing Learning Study Too Much Essence Important Things Harm Scripture

Book:The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

“none of what I know is out of books. ... I prefer tactual learning. Touching, on the quick of the sore nail, of present, mobile life. To toy, to gnaw, to tear: at the living element of pain. Like at a living drumstick.”

Knows Book Pain Learning Tears Elements Touching Toys Nails Mobile Drumsticks

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.”

Hands Eye Learning Teaching Through The Eyes

Author:Morgan Llywelyn

“Now, there are two ways to approach a subject that frightens you and makes you feel stupid: you can embrace it with humility and an open mind, or you can ridicule it mercilessly.”

Way Feels Mind Two Learning Subjects Stupid Humility Ignorance Approach Embrace Ridicule Open Mind Two Ways

Book:Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

Source: Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”

Source: Science Past, Science Future

“There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.”

Ends Learning Four Students Fine Type Wine Permit Sponges Flour

Book:The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

Source: The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus

“Example is better than precept.”

Learning Teaching Example

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it, the fear that lies behind it, and choose to learn with wisdom. The fear will not vanish immediately, but it will disintegrate as you work with courage. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay. When you choose to learn through wisdom, to evolve consciously, your fears surface one at a time in order for you to exorcise them with inner faith. This is how it happens. You exorcise your own demons.”

Source: The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

“Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.”

Pain Opportunity Learning About Yourself

Author:Gary Zukav

“There's more learning than is taught in books.”

Book Education Learning Taught

Book:The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

Source: The Essential Lady Gregory Collection

“When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.”

Forget Creativity Learning Failure Innovation Failure Is Not An Option

Author:Brené Brown

“Detachment doesn't mean I'm trying less hard. It just means that fears and emotions that used to torment and paralyze me no longer have the same power over me. Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”

Ifs Life Trying Years Mind Mean Hard Moving Used Night Fear Easy Business Emotion Silence Careers Power Learning Torment Detachment

Author:Kelly Cutrone

“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”

Science Business Knowledge Knowing Learning Findings Delight True Friend

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.”

People Book Lasts Mistake Learning Advice Fit Categories Learning From Mistakes

Book:Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

Source: Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly

“Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]”

Learning Fairs Belle Erudite

Author:Jacopo Sannazaro

“Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.”

Needs Body Knowledge Learning Pleasant Profitable

Author:Bathsua Makin

“How we learn is what we learn.”

Learning

Book:Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life

Source: Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life

“The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.”

People Wells Seems Might Wealth Learning Standards Chinese Merit Estimation

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.”

Way Mind Looks Learning Valuable

Book:Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.”

Knows Hard School Hate Rooms Education Learning Taught Lessons Taught Us Hard Lessons

Author:Gwen Bristow

“Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook.”

Ifs Way Feels Facts Feelings Problem Desire Learning Buddhism Promise Normal Okay Experience Fulfillment Realistic Right Way No Problem Outlook

Book:Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

Source: Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between

“The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we tend to develop certain trains of thought. If we feel sad or angry, still others. But suppose, with training, we become nonattached to distractions and learn to dampen these wild, emotional swings on either side of equanimity. Then we can enter that serene awareness which is the natural soil for positive, spontaneous personal growth, often called spiritual growth.”

Source: Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm learning to not want to be someone else, to just be who I am, as is, with nothing extra added on.”

Want Trying Learning Who I Am Extras

Book:Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

Source: Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

“Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.”

Universe Freedom Learning All Things Experience Separation Oneness Realization Distrust Liberating Interconnectedness

Book:The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism

Source: The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism

“Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.”

People Mistake Learning Wise Forgiving Making Mistakes Learning From Mistakes Forgive Yourself Everyone Makes Mistakes

Author:Ajahn Brahm

“Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.”

Desire Wish My Own Cases Learning Letting Go

Book:Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power

Source: Zen Body-Being: An Enlightened Approach to Physical Skill, Grace, and Power

“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.”

Writing Real Matter Learning Subjects Exercise Series Grappling

Author:Ralph Fletcher

“Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.”

Light Moving Learning Smile Tendencies

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Another simple and powerful way to dissolve problems is not to dwell upon the outcome of your actions. Instead, learn to value each action (no matter how small or large), to do it with complete attention. Your joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?”

“we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.”

House Process Learning Cleaning Clean House

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.”

World Giving Form Learning Media Style Willing Victory Perception Gains Slave Therapy Shopping Giving Back Be A Slave

Author:Thanissaro Bhikkhu

“To buried merit rise the tardy bust.”

Learning Merit Buried

Author:Samuel Johnson

“What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.”

Ifs World Inspirational Persons Education Learning Conditions Currents Appropriate Live And Learn You Live And You Learn Access To Education

Book:All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators

Source: All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators

“The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.”

Ifs Writing I Can Important Practice Learning Advice Offers Crafts Practice Makes Perfect

Author:Lauren Tarshis

“The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.”

Littles Remember Numbers Learning Capacity Casts Proportion Sand Faculty Mould

Book:Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer

“I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.”

Book Learning Study Leafs

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.”

Moments Lost Forget Learning Finals Examination Tedious Anatomy

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.”

People World Wells Stills War Courses Half Known Millions Learning Events Goes On Horror Disease Experience Spread Inevitable Well Known Ruined Futility Inconvenience Pox

Book:Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

Source: Antic Hay and the Gioconda Smile

“Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.”

Reason Whole Past Learning Driven Reasoning Household Pastime

Author:Moliere

“Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.”

Ifs Past Moving Knowledge Learning Taken Limits Active Cease Ties About Yourself Accumulation Static Learning Knowledge Learning About Yourself

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

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