- “A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.” ― Michael Marino
- “In normal life, “simplicity” is synonymous with “easy to do,” but when a chef uses the word, it means “takes a lifetime to learn.” ― Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
- “It has become fashionable to speak of the Enlightenment as an idiosyncratic construction by European males in a bygone era, one way of thinking among many different constructions generated across time by a legion of other minds in other cultures, each of which deserves careful and respectful attention. To which the only decent response is yes, of course – to a point. Creative thought is forever precious, and all knowledge has value. But what counts most in the long haul of history is seminality, not sentiment. If we ask whose ideas were the seeds of the dominant ethic and shared hopes of contemporary humanity, whose resulted in the most material advancement in history, whose were the first of their kind and today enjoy the most emulation, then in that sense the Enlightenment, despite the erosion of its original vision and despite the shakiness of some of its premises, has been the principal inspiration not just of Western high culture but, increasingly, of the entire world.” ― Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
- “No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they’re hot.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
- “People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “Bad luck with women is a determined man’s road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.” ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
- “There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Reading well, which means reading actively, is thus not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing. (P. 336)” ― Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- “There is no learning like loving.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “We learn from failure, not from success!” ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
- When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou
- “Every day is filled with spectacular moments. Seek them!” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson. Unknown
- “Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.” ― Gillian Duce, Demons and Dangers: Magic and Mayhem – Book 4
- “When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined … Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded … The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding.” ― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- “Hollowness: that I understand. I’m starting to believe that there isn’t anything you can do to fix it. That’s what I’ve taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps” ― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
- Become who you are by learning who you are. Pindar
- “REJECTION is kind of your negative ILLUSION which has no value but it’s give you a CLUE to go for next level of your ACTION.” ― Rashedur Ryan Rahman
- “Uncorrected errors evolve into terror” ― Constance Friday
- Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. Mahatma Gandhi
- From adversity we can learn the value of patience. Dalai Lama
- Reading is faster than listening. Doing is faster than watching. Naval Ravikant
- “Love doesn’t demand; it accepts. It has taken me my life to learn this.” ― Raymond E. Feist, Mistress of the Empire
- “Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind.” ― Orson Scott Card, Hart’s Hope
- “There is no lateness in life. Begin to pursue your dream.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “Repetition is an important part of learning. It is a vital factor in life lessons because each recurrence tends to challenge our earlier notions, resulting in continued contemplation and greater depths of understanding.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
- Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy
- “Growing up means learning what life is. When you’re little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn’t like that, for anybody; you can’t fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can’t live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can’t wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can’t wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can’t know what’s yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that’s yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren’t yours, because those haven’t happened to you.” ― C. JoyBell C.
- “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.” ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays