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“A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.”

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord-it feels great-but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”

Feels Self Feelings Hate Order Bits Learning Humility Taught Self Improvement Determination Improvement Barriers Accord Inferiority

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“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

“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

“Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.”

Men Mind Spirit Order Learning Successful Genius Method Ignorant Jealous Contempt Enlightening Censure Risque

Author:Jon Jones

“It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.”

Humans Desire Order Common Race Liberty Learning Teaching Mankind Affair Dues Tendencies France Human Race Fancy Organize Antiquity Public Affairs

Book:The Law

Source: The Law

“He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.”

Men Should May Long Use Order Learning Judgment Determined Clever Disguise Deceived Treacherous Trickery Clever Man

Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, and that unwillingness to learn from Authority that comes from making almost verbatim lecture notes and handing them back to the professor.”

Facts Science Order Attention Learning Wonderful Humility Authority Accounts Notes Professors Lectures Textbooks

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

“I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelaine. (12 May 1780)”

Giving May Children War Philosophy Order Politics Natural Liberty Learning Study Painting Son Ought Architecture My Son Commerce Agriculture Geography Tapestry Naval Navigation Natural History

Author:John Adams

“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”

Mind Order Change Learning

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.”

Life Inspirational Believe Kind Persons Sometimes Order Dies Growth Learning And Love Believe In Yourself Love Yourself Ashes Rebirth Yourself And Love

Author:Gerard Way

“In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.”

Ifs Knows Way May Helping Order Understanding Learning Greater Instruction

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“In order to be big, you have to think big. If you think small, you're going to be small.”

Ifs Thinking Inspirational Bigs Order Learning Think Big Famous Motivational

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.”

Source: Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success

“In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

Men Should Wisdom Might Truth Order Speak Learning Taught Speak The Truth

Book:The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims

“This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.”

Life Has Beens Form Science Order Creativity Learning Generations Keys Development Evolution Property Critical Spontaneous Emergence Hallmark Instability

Book:The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

Source: The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community

“Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.”

School Jobs Order Process Education Learning Teaching Products Mark Independent Never Ending Diploma High School Diploma

Book:This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

Source: This and That: Random Thoughts and Recollections

“In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.”

Order Beauty Learning Garden Stones Japanese Gardens

Book:Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Source: Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”

“You see it in schools all over... the concept that 'I'll be somewhat less than my best in order to make those around me feel more comfortable' is alive and well... I'm very keen that they understand that if they make themselves a little less than they can be, it is a one-way street to mediocrity.”

Ifs Way Feels Wells Littles School Order Leadership Education Learning Alive Streets Comfortable Concepts One Way Mediocrity

Author:Fiona Wood

“In order for the brain to comprehend the heart must first listen.”

Firsts Heart Order Brain Learning Teaching

Book:Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

Source: Smart Schools: From Training Memories to Educating Minds

“In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.”

Thinking Men Order Learning Teaching Satisfied Insane Sensible

Author:Georges Clemenceau

“In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.”

Firsts Order Growth Water Inspiring Learning Taste Empty Cups Empty Mind Empty Cup

Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.”

“Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.”

People Knows May Different Self Spiritual Values Order Growth Sin Learning Stage Enlightenment Compromise Spiritual Growth Different Peoples Refusal No Compromise

Author:Margaret Bondfield

“A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.”

Men Jobs Purpose Order Universe Learning Teaching Intellectual Ultimate Intelligence Technicians

Author:Richard B. Livingston

“Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived.”

Life Persons Has Beens Seems Order Justice Perfect Learning Pure Paid Property Debt Agents Posts Collections Adversaries Atonement Invoke Paid In Full

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.”

Source: The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.”

Mind Political Order Learning Ought Caring Contemplating

Author:Rene Descartes

“Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”