#learnin

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher? The student replied: “Everything! Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you". ↗

— Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

#life #self #teaching #life

I've always been a student of this life, not a teacher. More of a sponge than a fountain. ↗

— Louis Chunovic

#life #student #life

Your rank in life doesn't depend on what you learn , it's about what you give to those who want to learn ↗

— Shamekh Al-Suwi

#learning #life #rank #life

One more word about giving instruction as to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any case always comes on the scene too late to give it. As the thought of the world, it appears only when actuality is already there cut and dried after its process of formation has been completed... When philosophy paints its grey in grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy's grey in grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#lesson-learning #philosophy #wisdom #life

Learn, or you'll be made to learn. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#life #wisdom #life

I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#being-a-reader #biblioholism #bookishness #books #learning

In classes, the more lively and uninhibited ones will “suck away the air” from those with a more passive nature, despite all the efforts of the teacher. It is also a special danger in large groups that you will hear your fellow students’ bad pronunciation more than the teacher’s perfected speech. ↗

— Kató Lomb

#nature

Later, in my adulthood, I will read the book again, even watch the movie, and understand that I wasn’t equipped, as a child, to make room for arguments that would undermine every single choice made for me, that would shatter the foundations of my very existence. I would see that I had to believe everything I was taught, if only to survive. For a long time I wouldn’t be ready to accept that my worldview could be wrong, but I do not look back with shame at my ignorance. ↗

— Deborah Feldman

#ignorance #learning #religion #movies

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! ↗

— Claudius Galenus

#learning #science #truth #science

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ↗

— Rick Warren

#growth #inspirational #learning-from-mistakes #past #change