"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."
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"I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days."
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
"Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end."
"Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing."
"You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself."
"The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already."
"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."
"You can stay young as long as you learn."
"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."
"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."
"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."
"He who refuses to learn deserves extinction."
"What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?"
"To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock."
"The brain is a muscle that can move the world."
"There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be."
"I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket."