#earning

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. ↗

— Martina Horner

#life #life

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#learning #life #life-lessons #time #life

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#learning #life #process #sufis #sufism

I learned a world from each / one whom I loved ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#life-lessons #poetry #life

لو كان العقل على قدر كلام الرجل، لكان الثرثار أكبر الناس عقلاً، ولو كان العلم على قدر حفظ المسائل لكان التلميذ أوسع من أستاذه علماً، ولو كان الجاه على قدر الفضائل لما كان للأشرار نفوذ، ولو كان المال على قدر العقل لكان أغنى الناس الحكماء، وأفقر الناس السفهاء، ولو كان الخلود على قدر نفع الناس لما خلد السفاحون والطغاة وأكثر الملوك والزعماء. ↗

— مصطفى السباعي

#learning-the-truth #life #life-lessons #philosophy #wisdom

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, train himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance. That is, to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is ... curiosity to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does. And if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got that or not. [Press conference, University of Virginia, May 20, 1957] ↗

— William Faulkner

#craft #craftsmanship #creative-writing #learning-by-doing #talent

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#loss #yearning #being

There is creative reading as well as creative writing. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enlightenment #learning #reading #writing #creativity

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#lifelong-learning #intellect

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#knowledge #learning #education