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Learning
«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.»
«Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave»
Author: Muhammad
(Religious leader)
| About:
Justice,
Learning,
Support,
World
| Keywords:
four things, prayers, valor
«He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow»
Author: Muslih-uddin Sadi
| About:
Learning,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
conforming, Fields, labored, Rules of, sow
«I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Learning,
School
| Keywords:
any longer, away, die away, Do or Die, dying, famous, Famous Or, going, going away, go a long way, How to, knowing, list, listed, Lists of, List of, longer, Long Walk, making, my list, My school, poor, rich, school, schooled, schooling, somebody, Somebody to Love, Someone else, Teach, the list, walk, walk away, worth
«God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.»
Author: Stanley Lindquist
| About:
God,
Learning,
Life
| Keywords:
allows, allow for, any, could, deny, experience, feelings, in order, learn, lessons, low, lowing, lows, meanings, order, Orders of, out of order, pointing out, points, point after, point the way, take orders, Teach, The Way, underlie, underlies, underlying
«Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Learning
| Keywords:
a little, become, Be a Player, courtesies, courtesy, Friends, game, Game On, gaming, get in the game, helpful, his rule, laugh, laugh at, learn, listen, little, modesty, My Game, not only, objectivity, Other games, players, rules, Rules of, rule by, rule out, The Game of Life, The Rules, through, with modesty
«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.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
Learning,
Mankind
| Keywords:
almost, apparent, beings, disinclination, human beings, remarkable, unique