“You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break…”— Lev Grossman, amazon.com
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for ins…”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those who, inconsiderately, form a judgment of them, it is at present far behind all the other arts”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. However, knowing this, one must attend to medical practice not primarily to plausible theories, but to experience combined with reason. For a theory is a composite memory of things apprehended with sense perception.”— Hippocrates, amazon.com
“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”— E.L. Konigsburg, goodreads.com
“I choose to stay present, to unlearn how to unlove, to love, and to practice my worthiness of it.”— Buddy Wakefield, amazon.com
“Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which ar…”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”— Stanley Kubrick, en.wikiquote.org
“If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.”— Cassandra Clare, goodreads.com
“I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We’re here to learn from each other.”— Gillian Anderson, gilliananderson.ws
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”— Deborah Reber, amazon.com
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”— John Milton, en.wikiquote.org