Quotes by Learning You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means. Dag Hammarskjold learninglifeknowledge In Buddhism, both learning and practice are extremely important, and they must go hand in hand. Without knowledge, just to rely on faith, faith, and more faith is good but not sufficient. So the intellectual part must definitely be present. At the same time, strictly intellectual development without faith and practice, is also of no use. It is necessary to combine knowledge born from study with sincere practice in our daily lives. These two must go together. Dalai Lama buddhistbuddhismlearning One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind. Dalai Lama learningeducationcountry In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance. Dalai Lama buddhistlearningspiritual I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text. Dalai Lama turtleslearningreligious Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. Dale Carnegie learningwisdomknowledge Motive is also important in our quest for knowledge and in the questioning that accompanies it. In commenting on our duty to educate for eternity, Eugene England writes: Teaching or learning - with the Spirit of God simply means (though it is not simple) that we are doing so with an eye single to eternal, not worldly, values, with an eye single to lasting development of the mind and spirit and to useful service to others, especially to aid in their lasting development of mind and spirit. Dallin H. Oaks learningteachingwriting Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow. Dan Heisman learningchessworry The universe does not judge us; it only provides consequences and lessons and opportunities to balance and learn through the law of cause and effect. Compassion is the recognition that we are each doing the best we can within the limits of our current beliefs and capacities. Dan Millman life-lessonlearningopportunity We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. Dan Savage learninggaybible Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. Dana Scott learningeducationschool Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn. Daniel Dae Kim learningterribleanswers People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten. Daniel Goleman passionlearningpeople For the high achievers, studying gave them the pleasing, absorbing challenge of flow 40 percent of the hours they spent at it. But for low achievers, studying produced flow only 16 percent of the time; more often that not, it yielded anxiety, with the demands outreaching their abilities...The low achievers found pleasure and flow in socializing, not in studying. Daniel Goleman anxietylearningchallenges We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant. Daniel J. Boorstin ignorantlearningintellectual People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new. Daniel Quinn learningpeopleknowledge Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is? Daniel Quinn learningmotherlife Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates. Daniel R. White learningyearsschool Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice. Daniel Yankelovich learningmeanknowledge I take great solace that Einstein failed math. I failed math. I also failed English and home economics. Einstein was an underachiever. Danny Bonaduce learningeducationhome«2021222324252627282930»
