- “It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.” ― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, What Is Property?
- “Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder
- “The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don’t understand something” ― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2
- “Love doesn’t demand; it accepts. It has taken me my life to learn this.” ― Raymond E. Feist, Mistress of the Empire
- Ease and abundance are for fools. Discomfort is for the wise. Maxime Lagacé
- “God’ is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; ‘Ego’ is whatever within you stops you taking it.” ― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
- “It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “Our thoughts are the only sustainable source of positive energy.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- “Character means everything that is human about you… Character means a sense of community – character means a desire for learning and growth – character means the guts to admit and mend one’s own errors and shortcomings – character means the yearning for assimilation.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
- “You must continue learning to increase in learning.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Our thoughts are the only sustainable source of positive energy.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- “Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, ‘See, he is a wise man!’ Is it not so?” ― H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
- “Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Darwinian evolution and which it now projects onto the outside world. Not all scientists agree with this idea, but I consider it a central point: the naive empiricist philosophy underlying many of today’s artificial neural networks is wrong. It is simply not true that we are born with completely disorganized circuits devoid of any knowledge, which later receive the imprint of their environment. Learning, in man and machine, always starts from a set of a priori hypotheses, which are projected onto the incoming data, and from which the system selects those that are best suited to the current environment. As Jean-Pierre Changeux stated in his best-selling book Neuronal Man (1985), “To learn is to eliminate.” ― Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
- “My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.” ― Hermes Trismegistus
- “I didn’t say Atwater gave me old dresses with rips, and seams coming apart, and leftovers to eat—like it was a tip for doing a real good job for little pay.” ― G.M. Monks, Iola O
- “Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
- “It is not that I’m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.” ― Albert Einstein
- “Whereever we go, whatever we earnthe time we waste can never returnThe mistakes we’ve made are now to burninto the bonfire of guilt and wrongdoingWill we ever learn to stop pursuingthose temptations of life that minds are wooing?” ― Munia Khan
- “Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.” ― Scott Hayden
- “When Geoffrey’s not anxious, he radiates calmness, which probably means he sees more things and finds more things than other people do. It makes him open to new things too.” ― Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd’s Crown
- “We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.” ― LeeAnn Taylor
- “Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!” ― Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Treasury
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
- “I bargained with Life for a penny,And Life would pay no more, However I begged at eveningWhen I counted my scanty store;For Life is just an employer,He gives you what you ask,But once you have set the wages,Why, you must bear the task.I worked for a menial’s hire,Only to learn, dismayed,That any wage I had asked of Life,Life would have paid.” ― Jessie B. Rittenhouse
- “I’ve come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I’m just ‘being’, and without question, by default, it works.” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- “Truth falls from the heavens like rain, gently carving many channels in the earth. Your truth may be different from my own, yet both are still true.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- “The more you learn, the more you realize the less you know. You think you’re approaching some kind of horizon, but in fact the horizon is receding, and the more you learn, the more you see that horizon is very far away” ― Noam Chomsky
- “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” ― Eudora Welty, On Writing
- “It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual’s experiential truths – the extreme of the former is left feeling in the dark whereas the latter is caught blinded by the light. By proper scientific method, it is intellectually dishonest for me to declare the existence of God with utmost certainty, but to my individual spirit, I would be intellectually dishonest to deny the existence of God even for a second. This leaves the best of both worlds, as the believer is called to be able to give reasons for his faith, a deviation from mere fantasy.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy