#earning

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#character-building #growing-up #heartbreak #learning-by-doing #life

To truly learn from someone or something, one must first learn to love them. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#love #love

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#knowledge #learning #love

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#loss #love #yearning #life

When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began to name the various muscles. The other students in the class interrupt me: "We *know* all that!" "Oh," I say, "you *do*? Then no *wonder* I can catch up with you so fast after you've had four years of biology." They had wasted all their time memorizing stuff like that, when it could be looked up in fifteen minutes. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #physics #science #humor

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#learning #love #spirit #surprise #truth

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #life-lessons #richelle #richelle-goodrich #truth

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#learning #meditation #motivation #pride #reading

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#become #becoming #being #butterflies #butterfly

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#briefing #entertainment #expansion #information #inspiration