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βTo achieve great things, you must have great thoughts.β
β Benjamin Franklin
βLife isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.β
β George Bernard Shaw
βIf knowledge is lacking, action is incomplete.β
β Thomas Jefferson
βHave you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?β
β Walt Whitman
βA man who does not think is not truly living.β
β Descartes
βEducating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.β
β Aristotle
βThe hardest thing is to ask about what you already know.β
β Nietzsche
βStudy the past if you would define the future.β
β Confucius
βPatience is a habit.β
βMan is a learning animal.β
β Karl Marx
βAll humans live towards death.β
β Hegel
βEvery person is a philosopher.β
β Plato
βEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.β
β Robert Frost
βEverything changes.β
β Heraclitus
βWithout dialogue, existence is impossible.β
β Martin Luther King
βGreat things are achieved through effort.β
β Samuel Johnson
βWhoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.β
β George Iles
βThe function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.β
β Martin Luther King Jr.
βI know myselfβ
β Socrates
βHave the courage to use your own understanding.β
β Immanuel Kant
βMen learn while they teach.β
β Seneca
βMistakes are the best teacher.β
β Einstein
βIgnorance teaches courage, while learning teaches humility.β
β Alexander Pope
βTo be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge.β
β Zisi
βLife is a school, and learning is the goal.β
β Robert Kiyosaki
βLearning is the process of realizing how much you don't know.β
β John Locke
βLearning sets humans free.β
β Horace
βFearing death is not knowing life.β
β Epictetus
βSeeking truth is seeking knowledge.β
βScholarship is not subject to anyone's control.β
β Friedrich Nietzsche
βMistakes are the mother of progress.β
βMan is a thinking speciesβ
β RenΓ© Descartes
βBecoming is better than being. The growth mindset allows people to value what they are doing regardless of the outcome.β
β Carol Dweck
βThe world is like a book. If you do not read, you do not know a single page.β
β Saint Augustine
βEverything is relative.β
βThe best way to overcome fear is to understand it.β
βEducation is not preparation for life; education is life itself.β
β John Dewey
βTo learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.β
β Wang Yangming
βI am not destroying myself, I am creating myself.β
βBy three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.β
βThe highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.β
β Rabindranath Tagore
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.β
β Plutarch
βDo not fear death, but fear a life that is not understood.β
βIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.β
β Isaac Newton
βHe who opens a school door, closes a prison.β
β Victor Hugo
βIf you do not live as you think, you will think as you live.β
β Paul ValΓ©ry
βDefeat myself today.β
β Dante
βStill learning after learning and learning again.β
β Michelangelo
βExperience is the most expensive tuition.β
βIt is more difficult to want to know myself than not to know myself.β
βA person grows according to how they understand themselves.β
β Carl Rogers
βThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.β
βTo teach is to learn twice.β
β Joseph Joubert
βFailure is the most certain step towards success.β
β Thomas Edison
βThe learned man knows that he is ignorant.β
βMan perfects himself through study.β
β Kant
βBeware of the thoughts that make you act.β
β Mahatma Gandhi
βLearning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.β
β Abigail Adams
βFreedom is an inevitable choice.β
β Sartre
βAll humans have an instinct to pursue knowledge from birth.β
βTo truly understand is to acknowledge one's mistakes.β
βFall seven times, stand up eight.β
β Japanese Proverb
βA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.β
β Kahlil Gibran
βKnowledge without action is useless.β
β Leonardo da Vinci
βAll skills are perfected through practice.β
βHumans are beings who create themselves.β
β Charles de Gaulle
βLiving without thinking is merely existing.β
βLearning is youth, and understanding is maintaining youth.β
β JosΓ© MartΓ
βYou gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.β
β Eleanor Roosevelt
βI cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.β
βScholarship is above all about knowing oneself.β
βI teach others because I love learning.β
βThe most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.β
β Taylor Swift
βThe beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.β
β Frank Herbert
βI become what I think.β
βHe who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.β
βExperience is what makes us understand better what we already know.β
β Oscar Wilde
βFreedom comes from responsibility.β
βYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.β
β Rumi
βA man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.β
βEveryone can see the stars, but few understand their greatness.β
β Galileo Galilei
βLife without study is merely death.β
βKeep learning continuously.β
βIron sharpens iron; scholar sharpens scholar.β
β Unknown
βThe end of learning is action.β
β Franklin
βTo be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.β
βI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.β
β Abraham Lincoln
βThe greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say the children are now working as if I did not exist.β
β Maria Montessori
βWithout passion, you cannot do anything.β
β Vincent van Gogh
βWhat we learn with pleasure we never forget.β
β Alfred Mercier
βWithout deep thought, there is no scholarship.β
β Toegye Yi Hwang
βThe learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.β
βKnowledge without practice is useless.β
βThe illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.β
β Alvin Toffler
βThe roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.β
βAll are equal in the face of death.β
βThought without study is vain.β
βTo know what you know and to know what you do not know, that is true knowledge.β
βA little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.β
βWhoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.β
β Euripides
βA person who does not know themselves cannot learn anything.β
β Sappho
βLive your own life.β
βFailure is just a temporary resting place on the way to success.β
β Colin Powell
βHe who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.β
βLearning enhances the power of thoughtβ
β Francis Bacon
βTry to learn something about everything and everything about something.β
β Thomas Huxley
βPower without knowledge is useless.β
βLearning is open to everyone.β
βResearch without fear.β
β Marie Curie
βDo not fear change. Change is the beginning of opportunity.β
βWhen the student is ready, the teacher will appear.β
β Lao Tzu
βEvery act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.β
β Thomas Szasz
βThe mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.β
βKnowledge means knowing that you know.β
βAcquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude.β
β Ali ibn Abi Talib
βKnowledge is not power, but action.β
βWe live as we think.β
β Marcus Aurelius
βConstant self-improvement is the best investment.β
βHave patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them.β
β Francis de Sales
βEducation breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.β
βLearning how to grow, that is the most important thing we can do.β
β John Maxwell
βKnowledge is power, but without passion, it is nothing.β
β Stephen King
βWisdom is born from suffering.β
β Aeschylus
βKnow thyself.β
βAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.β
βThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.β
β Marcel Proust
βIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.β
βThe ultimate goal of learning is to know oneself.β
βThe goal of life is to realize one's potential to the fullest.β
βStudy is the seasoning of life.β
βWe are what we think turned into action.β
βThe study of a person without deep thought is just the color of a plant.β
βMan is a thinking eagle.β
βRealizing oneself is true learning.β
βEducation is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it.β
β Hannah Arendt
βThe only thing I am certain of is that I know nothing.β
βIgnorance is evil.β
βEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.β
β W.B. Yeats
βAll knowledge begins with experience.β
βSharing knowledge is increasing knowledge.β
β Wagner
βEverything we experience depends on how we perceive it.β
βLife is about discovering yourself. The more I know what I want, the more I know who I am.β
β James Michener
βThere is no end to learning.β
βEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.β
βThe beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.β
β B.B. King
βA man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.β
β Mark Twain
βRun towards your dreams. Failure can be overcome.β
βThe true journey is to find a new perspective.β
βA truly knowledgeable person does not deny what they know.β
β Xunzi
βLearning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.β
β John Holt
βExperience is the teacher of wisdom.β
β Talmud
βLearning is never a waste of timeβ
β Richard Templar
βA single conversation with a wise person is worth a month study of books.β
β Chinese Proverb
βAll knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind.β
β Swami Vivekananda
βMake the most of the given situation.β
β Robert Louis Stevenson
βHe has half the deed done who has made a beginning.β
βRemember that knowledge is power.β
βKnowledge is not absolute power.β
βThe only thing I know is that I know nothing.β
βKnowledge grows as it is shared.β
βKnowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.β
βLearning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.β
β Zhu Xi
βAbsorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.β
β Bruce Lee
βShare your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.β
β Dalai Lama
βEducation is not a tool for domestication but for liberation.β
β Paulo Freire
βThe ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.β
βMake an effort to improve little by little.β
βThe beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.β
βMan exists through words.β
βLife is a school, and living is learning.β
β Henry Ford
βEducation is the process of engraving what kind of person one will become onto the soul.β
βExample is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.β
β Albert Schweitzer
βThe best education is to awaken ourselves.β
βThat which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.β
β Ralph Waldo Emerson
βEverything we learn is for ourselves.β
βEducation is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.β
β B.F. Skinner
βLearning never exhausts the mind.β
βA single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' mere study of books.β
β Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
βSomewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.β
β Carl Sagan
βTo cultivate knowledge, love learning; to gain wisdom, know yourself.β
βHumans need to learn how to think.β
βA person is the result of their own thoughts.β
β James Allen
βI am still learning.β
βWhen we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.β
β Paulo Coelho
βKnowledge makes us more creativeβ
βNothing can be gained without pain.β
βMan becomes what he thinks.β
βWe can learn from everyone we meet.β
βHave the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.β
βMuch learning does not teach understanding.β
βIntelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in ones own culture.β
β Howard Gardner
βDoubt is the key to knowledge.β
β Persian Proverb
βTo attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.β
βAcquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven.β
β Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i
βLive as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.β
βLearning is extending youth.β
βSeek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.β
βWhat makes us wise? Perhaps it is ignorance.β
β Voltaire
βFailure is a bridge to success.β
β Thomson
βKnowledge is power, but using it is growth.β
β Robert Ingersoll
βAll men by nature desire knowledge.β
βOnce you learn to read, you will be forever free.β
β Frederick Douglass
βLeadership and learning are indispensable to each other.β
β John F. Kennedy
βI have not failed. I have just found 10000 ways that wont work.β
βThe purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.β
β Mortimer Adler
βWe are learning until the day we die.β
βLearning always gives freedom.β
βA mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.β
β Oliver Wendell Holmes
βScholarship is youth.β
β Hemingway
βA person becomes what they think about.β
βKnowledge is the source of wealth creationβ
βThere is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.β
β Anthony Trollope
βAnyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.β
βIron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.β
βHumans are learning animals.β
βThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.β
β John Stuart Mill
βA man sees the world as he thinks.β
β Anthony de Mello
βI do not think that I know what I know.β
βKnowledge is power, but applying it is more important.β
βOnly the educated are free.β
βI am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.β
β Winston Churchill
βLife itself is education.β
βI do not think I know what I know.β
βLearning is the secret to extending youth.β
β Sophocles
βI consider knowing myself to be the most important.β
βReal knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.β
βFailure is a stepping stone to success.β
βEveryone is a philosopher.β
βI was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.β
βThey know enough who know how to learn.β
β Henry Adams
βKnowledge is power.β
βFreedom comes from courage.β
β Simone de Beauvoir
βGenius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.β
β Edison
βHappiness depends upon ourselves.β
βIt is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.β
βLearning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.β
βWorking is growingβ
βLearning is the light of life.β
β Thomas Hobbes
βKnowledge does not make us slaves; it sets us free.β
β Michael Scott
βThought without learning is useless.β
βPatience is a bitter fruit, but its fruit is sweet.β
βSit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.β
βMan must transcend himself.β
βIf you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.β
β African Proverb
βReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge. It is thinking that makes what we read ours.β
βKnowledge is discovering what you know and what you don't know.β
βA person who does not learn is an old man, and a person who learns is a foolish youthβ
βThe only source of knowledge is experience.β
β Albert Einstein
βSelf-education is the only kind of education there is.β
β Isaac Asimov
βThe only permanent thing is change.β
βAdversity makes humans stronger.β
βA person becomes what they think.β
β Maurice Maeterlinck
βMan is always ready to learn something.β
β Zen Proverb
βExperience is the best teacher.β
βTo avoid forgetting what I've learned, I must act immediately.β
βThe mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.β
βIt is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.β
βEvery man dies, but not every man really lives.β
β William Wallace
βStudy without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.β
βWhen you know better, you do better.β
β Maya Angelou
βTo know others, first know yourself.β
βJudge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.β
βEducation either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom.β
βMan is a thinking animal.β
β Blaise Pascal
βThe root of all learning is curiosity.β
βA single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.β
βLife isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.β
βKnowledge and wisdom are different.β
β Hermann Hesse