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In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.
Sep 10, 2025
Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences.
Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.
It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.
You're never going to learn something as profoundly as when it's purely out of curiosity
Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.
Every day we live is a priceless gift of God, loaded with possibilities to learn something new, to gain fresh insights.
Education costs money. But then so does ignorance.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
Education is cheap; experience is expensive.
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.
Marriage is about becoming a team. You’re going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you’ll always figure out a way to get through it.
The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain. Of course it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
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.
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.