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Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills

• Learning: The acquisition of knowledge or skills through study, experience, or being taught.  Oxford Dictionary
• Learning: Knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study.  Merriam Webster
• Education,  Life is a university,  Growth,  Transformation,  Evolution,  Improvement,  Research

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The world is a school and life is a teacher …

• The world is your school. Martin H. Fischer
• All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. Martin H. Fischer
• Every moment in the earth school offers you important opportunities to learn about yourself. Those things have to do with your soul. The Earth school operates with exquisite perfection and efficiency whether you are aware of it or not. Gary Zukav
• Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on. Douglas Pagels
• Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences…. But the lessons of experience are hidden.  Dan Millman
• Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom. Judith Orloff
• Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
• The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson. Tom Bodett
• The entire universe is a university. Everything and everybody is a professor to us. We constantly learn from everybody and everything. We learn even more through pain than through pleasure. Whether we want it to or not, the world will give us the experiences we need and make us grow. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school and our life the classrooms. Oprah Winfrey
• The world is but a school of enquiry. Michel de Montaigne
• The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles. Life’s true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. Charles Louis de Secondat
• You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.” Cherie Carter- Scott

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… providing constant lessons throughout life

• All of life’s experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. David Emerald
• Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don’t. Brett Favre
• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Helen Keller
• All of life is a constant education. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. Jessica Lange
• There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• There’s so much to learn! And just when we think, “I’ve got it. I really understand what’s going on,” we’re shown a whole new stage set on which to play. Richard Bach
• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes. Hugh Prather
• It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned. Cherie Carter-Scott

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Life itself is an art that must be learned …

• Living is an art. The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice. Erich Fromm
• Can anything be learned about the practice of an art, except by practicing it? Erich Fromm

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… one that can only be learned as you go, often through hard knocks

• Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. Lewis Mumford
• Life is playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as you go along. Lord Bulwer- Lytton
• Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast. William Nicholson
• Experience is the worst teacher because it gives the test before presenting the lesson. Vernon Law
• The years teach much which the days never knew. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It takes a life to learn how to live

• I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all, it is just about over.  Sandra Hochman
• I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Jonathan Safran Foer

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Learning how to learn is probably life’s most important skill

• Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill. Tony Buzan
• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt
• They know enough who know how to learn. Henry Adams

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Continuous learning is essential in today’s constantly changing world

• In a time of drastic change, it is the learner who inherits the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn. Nathaniel Branden
• In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt
• Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival. Edwards Deming
• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler
• The principle of continuous learning, of self-reeducation is the discipline that drives us toward the values we believe in. Such constant learning is required in today’s world. Continuous learning is part of what keeps us feeling empowered in our relationships and accomplished in our work. Technology is constantly changing, and many of us will work in more than five different fields before we retire. Are you willing to be left behind? Stephen Covey
• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. Peter Drucker

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Commit yourself to lifelong learning

• A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. Nathaniel Branden
• All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence. Denis Waitley
• Average people are dedicated to leisure. The best people are devoted to learning.  Robin Sharma
• Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you’ll ever have is your mind and what you put into it. Brian Tracy
• Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning. George Leonard
• Education is the mental railway, beginning at birth and running on to eternity. B F Skinner
• Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.  Henry L. Doherty
• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.  Eartha Kitt
• I am still learning. Michelangelo
• I never stop studying. There’s always lots to learn. When you stop learning, that’s about the end of you. John Morton- Finney
• Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Albert Einstein
• Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating. Robert Brault
• Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. Denis Waitley
• The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win. Charlie Munger
• The most successful people are lifelong learners; they constantly ask questions and never cease to explore the wonder- filled world around them. Regardless of where you are in life—whether you are fifteen or a hundred and fifteen, whether you are going through a rough patch or are thriving—create an education program for yourself. Tal Ben- Shahar
• It is clearly absurd to limit the term ‘education’ to a person’s formal schooling. Murray N. Rothbard
• The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. Newton D. Baker
• What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner
• 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

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Learn something every day

• Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old. Robert Brault
• You learn something every day if you pay attention. Ray LeBlond
• Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day.  Don’t just get through it; get from it.  Learn from it.  Let the day teach you.  Join the university of life.  What a difference that will make in your future.  Commit yourself to learning.  Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge.  Get it.  Don’t miss it.  Jim Rohn
• When I learn something new–and it happens every day–I feel a little more at home in the universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. Bill Moyers
• Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits. Brian Tracy
• Life is believing that there is a lot to learn. Living is learning it every day.  Jordan D. Ulmer

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Investing in your learning is the best investment you can make

• The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine. Byron Katie

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Learning brings great rewards

• It is learning, individually and collectively, which makes us strong, gives us hope, and carries us forward. Barbara Viniar
• Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field. Brian Tracy
• Prosperity belongs to those who learn new things the fastest. Paul Zane Pilzer
• The more learning, the more life. Pirkei Avot
• When I learn something new – and it happens every day – I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. Bill Moyers
• Food fuels your body. Learning feeds your mind. Robin Sharma
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether 20 or 80, anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Henry Ford
• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler
• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo

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Learning is a priceless gift that can never be taken away

• Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself. JoyBell C.
• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. Chinese Proverb
• Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn
• Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning, we re- create ourselves. Through learning, we become able to do something we were never able to do.  Through learning, we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.  There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.  Peter Senge
• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. B. King

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Stop learning and you’ll get left behind

• Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.  Chinese Proverb
• Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Lauren Bacall

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Stop learning and you’re through

• If I am through learning, I am through. John Wooden
• The moment you say ‘I know everything’ is the end of your growth. Sharon Lee
• The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. Newton D. Baker
• There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. Gordon B. Hinckley
• When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. Lillian Smith

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Learn how to live and thrive

• As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Seneca
• I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organised it all, it is just about over. Sandra Hochman
• If we truly want to create a life that is grounded in basic well-being, we must decide to commit ourselves to learning what it takes to thrive instead of merely survive. Susan Velasquez
• It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and – even more surprising – it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. Seneca
• Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others. Doug Horton

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Learn something positive from every experience

• Don’t just learn something from every experience; learn something positive. Allen H. Neuharth
• Education is a lifelong experience. Experience is a lifelong education. Education plus experience equals expertise. Michael Bugeja
• Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast. William Nicholson
• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine
• Experience is more important than knowledge. Santosh Kalwar
• Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. Spanish Proverb
• Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar
• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. S. Lewis
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
• I believe that there’s a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience. Oprah Winfrey
• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
• Learning by experience often is painful – and the more it hurts, the more you learn. Ralph Banks
• Experience is the worst teacher because it gives the test before presenting the lesson. Vernon Law
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The greatest lesson in life is how to love

• The spiritual being sees the physical world as an arena for growth and learning with the specific purpose of serving and evolving into higher levels of love. Wayne Dyer
• A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. Leo Buscaglia
• What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences – and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey
• Love, too, has to be learned. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The sole concern of learning is to seek one’s original heart. Mencius
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The willingness and desire to learn is everything

• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. Benjamin Franklin
• A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass
• It is essential that along with imparting facts, that we inspire the ability and desire to learn. Barbara Viniar

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Learning should be an active process

• Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than passive process. Kurt Lewin
• Learning without thought is labor lost. Confucius
• Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams
• Learning is not a spectator sport. Blocher

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Learn through questioning and seeking the answer

• Asking good questions is half of learning. Mohammed
• It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander
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Learn through practice

• Can anything be learned about the practice of an art, except by practicing it? Erich Fromm
• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. Martha Graham
• The teaching which is written on paper is not the true teaching. Written teaching is a kind of food for your brain.  Of course, it is necessary to take some food for your brain, but it is more important to be yourself by practicing the right way of life.  Suzuki Roshi
• Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. Ann Voskamp
• I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. Martha Graham
• Living is an art. The process of learning an art can be divided conveniently into two parts: one, the mastery of the theory; the other, the mastery of the practice. Erich Fromm
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Learn by doing and experiencing

• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso
• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Malcolm Gladwell
• We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way. John Holt
• There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Paulo Coelho
• What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. by Aristotle
• Some men learn all they know from books; others from life; both kinds are narrow. The first are all theory; the second are all practice. It’s the fellow who knows enough about practice to test his theories for blow- holes that gives the world a shove ahead and finds a fair margin of profit in shoving it. George Horace Lorimer
• We learn to do by doing. Spencer W. Kimball
• In doing we learn. George Herbert
• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
• The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time. William S. Knudsen
• Action,  Experience

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Learn from first-hand experience

• The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern. Chogyam Trungpa
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
• Don’t just learn something from every experience; learn something positive. Allen H. Neuharth
• Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast. William Nicholson
• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Heinrich Heine
• Experience is more important than knowledge. Santosh Kalwar
• Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. Spanish Proverb
• Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar
• Experience is the worst teacher because it gives the test before presenting the lesson. Vernon Law
• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. S. Lewis
• I believe that there’s a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience. Oprah Winfrey
• In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
• Learning by experience often is painful – and the more it hurts, the more you learn. Ralph Banks
• The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern. Chogyam Trungpa
• The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.  Doug Larson
• We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.  Peter De Vries
• We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Malcolm Gladwell
• We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.  George Bernard Shaw

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Learn from failure

• Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey
• Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan
• I think success has no rules, but you can learn a lot from failure. Jean Kerr
• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. Samuel Smiles
• It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates
• Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past, is the wisdom and success of the future. Tyron Edwards
• Success is a poor teacher. Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches. Hyman G. Rickover
• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do. And probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
• We must expect to fail…but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process. Ted W. Engstrom
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Learn from mistakes

• I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. Jack Welch
• By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If you make mistakes it doesn’t matter. Make mistakes and learn. The best teachers are your own mistakes. You learn even faster by your mistakes. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. Weston Agor
• Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn form them. This is how they become strong. Richard Needham
• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. John Powell
• The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn. Peter McWilliams
• We don’t make mistakes…we just have learnings. Anne Wilson Schaef
• There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.” Cherie Carter- Scott
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Learn through challenges, adversity and problems …

• I am not afraid of storms… for I am learning to sail my ship. Louise May Alcott
• Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. Henry Ford
• Problems are spiritual lessons from God–spiritual lessons to be learned. Tony Robbins
• The difficulties we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most.
• Whenever something negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it. Eckhart Tolle
• What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade? Dale Carnegie
• Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Life should have challenges. Without challenges it would be a bore. It is only in challenging situations that you really learn. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. Kelly Cutrone
• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather
• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore, nil desperandum. March forward hero! Sivananda Saraswati
• We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
• We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage– and indeed perhaps more. Pearl S. Buck
• When you find yourself in a frustrating situation repeatedly, instead of fighting it or asking why this always seems to happen, try asking yourself, “What am I supposed to be learning here?” You may be surprised at the answers that come from within you.  Life’s lessons may be viewed as difficulties or challenges to be overcome, but in reality, they are exercises in fine-tuning that will make our efforts more effective in the long run.  We are developing skills, attitudes, and perspectives that we need to move forward with insight and awareness.  Gail Pursell Elliott
• It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually. Richard Rohr
• One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. Merle Shain
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… for pain can be a powerful instructor

• One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. Merle Shain
• We learn even more through pain than through pleasure. Whether we want it to or not, the world will give us the experiences we need and make us grow. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple. Aberjhani
• Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us- and those around us – more effectively. Look for the learning. Louisa May Alcott
• The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. Madeleine L’Engle
• As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those things that hurt, instruct.” It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. M. Scott Peck
• Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain. Aristotle

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Learn through mindful awareness

• If we learn how to inhabit now more – with awareness – then it’s almost as if the universe becomes your teacher. Because there’s no boundary to awareness. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindfulness,  Awareness

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Learn by teaching

• In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn. Phil Collins
• To be a teacher is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student. Soren Kierkegaard
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Learn from the mistakes, experiences and wisdom of others

• No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. Brian Tracy
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Groucho Marx
• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
• There is divine beauty in learning. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. Elie Wiesel
• If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were. Aldous Huxley
• Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes, fools by their own.

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Be constantly open and ready to learn something new

• Be a student by staying open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone. Wayne Dyer
• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. Vernon Howard
• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you’ll never cease to grow. Anthony J. D’Angelo
• Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. Sarah Caldwell
• Teachers open the door… You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb
• The great advantage of openness-to-learning is that you’re in charge of it at all times. You can choose to shift out of defensiveness into genuine curiosity at any moment. Gay & Katie Hendricks
• Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles
• To be a real student is to learn all the time. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Learn from nature

• You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. Saint Bernard
• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy. Orison Swett Marden
• Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything … and just sit still and watch. Lauren Hutton
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To learn, adopt the empty and open mind of a beginner

• A university professor went to visit a famous Zen master. While the master quietly served tea, the professor talked about Zen. The master poured the visitor’s cup to the brim, and then kept pouring. The professor watched the overflowing cup until he could no longer restrain himself. “It’s overfull! No more will go in!” the professor blurted. “You are like this cup,” the master replied, “How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup.”
• Belief gets in the way of learning. Robert A. Heinlein
• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. Epictetus
• It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning. Claude Bernard
• Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone – in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors.  It is why we say we need to get away–to escape from clutter and busyness–to hear ourselves think.  Robert Fulghum
• You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. Barbara Sher
• Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing. Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Smart people don’t learn… because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing. Chris Agyris
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To learn, you often have to unlearn what you already know

• As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct. Ambeth R. Ocampo
• Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. Mark Twain
• It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.  Martin H. Fischer
• Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlived its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. Gary Ryan Blair
• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughan
• The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what it untrue. Antisthenes
• The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein
• It’s not always what we don’t know that gets in our way; sometimes it’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning. Steve Maraboli
• Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. Margaret Lee Runbeck
• You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something. George Bernard Shaw

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Curiosity is the wick of learning

• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. William A. Ward
• The great advantage of openness-to-learning is that you’re in charge of it at all times. You can choose to shift out of defensiveness into genuine curiosity at any moment. Gay & Katie Hendricks
• You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Clay P. Bedford
• Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Eugene S. Wilson
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Learn with the openness and curiosity of a child

• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. Thomas Szasz
• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. Thomas Huxley
• No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. Frances Willard
• Too much learning makes one proud. One must bend one’s head, realizing the limitations of reason. It can only take you to the gate and it has to be left behind when you enter the realm of the Spirit.  You have to unlearn what you have learned and become as simple and guileless as a child.  Papa Ramdas
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Everyone and everything is your teacher

• Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. Ken Keyes
• Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment. This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee), every illness, every loss, every moment of joy or depression, every addiction, every piece of garbage, every breath. Every moment is the guru. Charlotte Joko Beck
• Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Rachel Naomi Remen
• With synchronicity, all the resources we need are made available for us at the precise moment that is appropriate. The people who come into our lives are the ones we need at that moment in time. Everything is perfect. We only need to recognize this to tune into the flow. Everything happens for a reason and every experience is a learning experience. Alex Chua

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Learn from the people who come into your life …

• I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We’re here to learn from each other. Gillian Anderson
• I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. George Herbert Palmer
• Who is wise? He who learns from all men. From all my teachers have I gotten understanding. Ben Zoma
• Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher. Wayne Dyer
• Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy; the bad points of the other I correct in myself. Confucius
• Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion. Gautama Buddha

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… especially those you struggle with

• I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. Dudley Field Malone
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
• If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. Pema Chodron
• I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. Kahlil Gibran
• In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. The Dalai Lama
• Difficult people are, as usual, the greatest teachers. Pema Chodron

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You are your best teacher

• The teacher you need is the person you’re living with. Byron Katie

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Learning is far more than accumulation of knowledge …

• What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life? Paulo Coelho
• Learning isn’t acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. Criss Jami
• It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Harry S Truman
• Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding. Donna Jo Napoli
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
• It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne
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… although knowledge can aid learning

• Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. Dan Brown

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True learning is about understanding

• Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding. Donna Jo Napoli
• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing
• The more you understand, the less you have to remember. Craig A. McCraw
• You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way. Marvin Minsky
• In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus
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True learning is about applying what you learn

• …to learn and not to do is really not to learn. Stephen Covey
• One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. Persian proverb
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Bruce Lee
• The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Thomas Henry Huxley
• To know and not to do is not yet to know. Lao Tzu
• Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action. Richard Keeves
• Knowledge needs to be a verb. Edwards Denning
• Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. Dale Carnegie

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Wisdom is realising how much you still have to learn

• The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. Michel Legrand
• The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana
• Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper
• The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Plato
• The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown. Albert Einstein
• They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore, the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are. Chris Hamono
• I have learned that one thing I know for sure is that I have a lot to learn. Jordan D. Ulmer

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Nothing goes away till it has taught you what you need to know

• Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.  Frank Sonnenberg,
• Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.  Pema Chodron
• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.  George Santayana
• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.  Helen Keller
• Life is like a great teacher….. she will repeat the lesson until you learn.  Ricky Martin
• Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.  James W. Loewen
• Repetition is the father of learning, I repeat, repetition is the father of learning.  Lil Wayne
• Sometimes in life, your situation will keep repeating itself until you learn your lesson.  Brigitte Nicole
• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.  Errol Morris
• If we fail to recognise the lessons life wants to teach us, these undesirable situations simply repeat themselves.  Joseph Summers
• Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over …with wordless variety… She spells the name of Love.  Joan Walsh Anglund
• Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.  Cherie Carter-Scott

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Many things must be learned rather than be taught

• The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one’s own accord–it feels great–but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop. Criss Jami
• Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being “with it,” yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation. Ivan Illich
• You know that I don’t believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question the efficacy of teaching.  The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn.  And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.  Carl Rogers
• In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Anthony Hope
• I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein
• Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

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Learning without thought is labor lost

• Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
• Learning without thought is labor lost. Confucius
• I’ve known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. Wilson Mizner

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Be patient because learning takes time

• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a man’s life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway
• Learning proceeds in fits and starts. Jerold W. Aps
• He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance, one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzche
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Learning doesn’t require a specific method

• Anybody who has ever “gotten it” by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it. Lee Lozowick
• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. Richard P. Feynman

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Children and learning

• Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse. Eudora Welty
• Children read to learn–even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries: it is all new to them. Joan Aiken
• Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born of another time. Hebrew Proverb
• Do not train children in learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each. Plato
• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

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Drink deep in your learning

• For many, learning is a spiral, where important themes are visited again and again, each time at a deeper, more penetrating level. Jerold W. Aps
• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Alexander Pope

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Wisdom and learning

• Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own. Michel de Montaigne
• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein
• Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning. Anton Chekhov
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Teachers and learning

• You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you. Somerset Maugham
• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. E. M. Forster
• Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. Paulo Coelho

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• To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there’s a tough essay question. Robert Brault
• The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
• Some of us learn from the mistakes of others; the rest of us have to be the others.
• You’re never too old to learn something stupid.
• A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience loyalty and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. Robert Benchley
• A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
• An ignoramus is someone who doesn’t know something you learned yesterday.
• By the time you learn the rules of life, you’re too old to play the game.
• Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. Albert Einstein
• Generally speaking you aren’t learning much when your mouth is moving.
• He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop. Reverend Sydney Smith
• He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. Benjamin Franklin
• Highbrow: One whose learning has outstripped his intelligence.
• I learned about sex the hard way – from books. Emo Phillips
• I’ve known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. Wilson Mizner
• If we keep on learning at this rate we’ll soon know nothing at all. Mark Twain
• If we really learned from our past mistakes most of us would never get out of bed in the morning. Alfred E. Neuman
• If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way. Mark Twain
• Ignoramus: Someone who doesn’t know something that you learned yesterday.
• In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
• It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. Earl Weaver
• Learned Fool: One who has read everything, and simply remembered it.
• Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. Ambrose Bierce
• Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler
• Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. Ashleigh Brilliant
• Marge every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I learned how to make wine and forgot how to drive? Homer Simpson
• Ordinarily people live and learn. You just live.
• The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson
• There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers
• We learn from experience that men never learn from experience. George Bernard Shaw
• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander
• We learn something every day and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughn
• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? Bill Watterson
• You can learn many things from children – how much patience you have for instance. Franklin Jones
• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.  Douglas Adams

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