Learning

Learning                                                              [1164 - 654]

The self-taught is the only one who has learned. The others are taught.

What you learn after school is important. Otherwise, you only know what everyone else knows.

If you are afraid to ask, then you are ashamed to learn.

He, who knows nothing, never doubts.

Variation and repetition teach best.

Don't be afraid to ask stupid questions. They are easier to deal with than stupid mistakes.

I hear and I forget. I see, I remember that. I do and so I understand.

You can acquire knowledge in three ways:
- By thinking - that is a noble way.
- By trial and error - it's a laborious way.
- Or by imitating - that's an easy way.
And by repeating it sticks in the memory.

Read more, imagine less

Reading does not make you wise, it only makes you learned.

You should never grow too big to ask questions. Never know so much that you can't learn something new.

Some people never learn anything, just because they understand everything so easily.

What does learning mean? Is it about gathering information, or is it about letting knowledge change my own life?

There are two types of curiosity. One is based on selfishness and makes us find out what could be useful to us. The second is based on pride and depends on the desire to know what others do not know.

Information that is easy to understand and use, but incorrect, is more useful than truth, that is complex and difficult to understand.

Whenever you teach something, you should teach your listeners to doubt the teachings.

I have never learned anything from a person who has agreed with me.

When you speak, you only repeat what you already know. But if you listen, you might learn something new.

The quieter I am, the more I hear.

Do you want to get to know the thing? Look at it closely. Do you want to love it? Look at it from afar.

How do you get to know yourself? Through meditation never. But through action.

Example accomplishes more in the world than any good teaching.

The greatest difficulty is not to get people to accept new ideas, but to get them to abandon the old ones.

Learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Education is what remains after we have forgotten everything we have learned.

A sailor does not become skillful on a calm sea.

The sailor does not ask for a tailwind. He learns to sail.

The best criticism is praise, it sticks.

Asking is teaching.

A nod is enough for the wise, the fool needs a fist.

You always learn something when you check after-hand what the action had led to.

The wise learn from the mistakes of others. Stupid about their own and the stupidest not even about their own mistakes.

It's also good for you to fail now and then - You learn more from them than from success.

By constantly questioning and discussing, we come up with increasingly better functioning solutions to the problems.

Learn to tune into another frequency in time. If you listen to too much advices, you may end up making the mistakes of others.

The most useful lesson life has taught me is that idiots can often be right.

Do not weigh every step on your way: only by looking far away will you find the way forward.

Only those who are willing to go too far, know how far they can go.

The only way you find limits to the possible is, you go over to the impossible.

You will have time for almost anything in your life if you are not in too much of a hurry.

A few moments of distress teach a person more wisdom than decades of stable conditions.

Each time is responsible for its own. But don't forget to read about them to learn for the future.

He who seeks, he finds. He who sleeps, he dreams.

When I changed my way of looking at the thing, the thing I looked at also changed.

How can you make the turbidity clear? Leave it untouched and it will clear itself.

A whole new world - - From another perspective.

You should also learn from your enemy.

If you're only looking for faults, you won't find anything else.

An example is better than a thousand arguments.

Children do as their parents do, not as they say.

Children need more role models than reprimands.

Do not demand perfect behavior from children. They are with time learning. Good habits must be contagious, they are not learned.

Children teach us many things, such as where the limits of our patience are.

Knowing 

If you believe you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

He who can, he does. He who cannot, he teaches. The one who cannot teach is transferred to the administration.

If you master the subject, the words will come by themselves.

You don't know what you're capable of until you've tried.

Ability is what you can do. Motivation determines what you do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

As long as you try something, you can achieve more than you believe.

If you think you know everything, you are ill-informed.

He who knows best never learns anything.

The belief that I already know prevents me from learning new things.

Knowing is easy. But it brings us many difficulties.

A specialist is a person who is afraid of all other subjects.

An expert is a person who has made all sorts of mistakes in a limited area.

An expert is a professional idiot in one area and a common idiot in all others.

The more information, the more pain.

Knowledge is a treasure that follows its owner everywhere.

To live is the art of being able to draw satisfactory conclusions from inadequate premises.

To able do difficult things, think if so many others can do it, why not you.

Courage is often a lack of insight, while cowardice often depends on reliable information.

If you always play it safe in your life, you decide at the same time that you no longer want to grow.

For the first time in human history, changes are so rapid that what we learned at a young age prevents us from succeeding in old age.

Taking the first step is the most important part of every journey of discovery and undoubtedly the most significant.

If you go yourself, you are serious, if you send a message, you just don't care.

You can't describe a person, but you can describe your impression, you have got of him.

Do you want to know who you are? Do not ask. Act! The action describes and defines you.

Circumstances do not make me what I am, they reveal who I have chosen to be.

It is easy for a wise man to play dumb, but to do the opposite is much more difficult.

"If" and "in case" were planted in the ground. They grew to "Nothing".

Your task is not to look into the future but to make it possible.

The safest way to hide your limitation is that you do not exceed it.

Laziness is a good talent, if you can use it properly.

There is always an easier way.

Ignorance is spiritual darkness without moon and stars.

Efficiency is very advanced laziness.

The secret to getting ahead is to get started. The secret to getting started is to break down the overwhelming tasks into smaller, manageable tasks and start from scratch.

Nothing is particularly difficult as long as you break it down into small enough tasks.

Many reject a good idea just because it's not their own.

If you let things go by themselves, their development will inevitably be for the worse.

A little at a time, so over time you'll go a long way.

Plans are nothing, planning is everything.

Education is an ornament of success, a refuge in adversity.

You miss 100% of all shots you don't fire.

If you chase two hares, you catch none.

To get to the source, you have to swim against the current.

Discoveries are often the result of planned groping.

If you go astray, you will find new ways.

It's only the mediocre who always performs his best.

Do not tension the bow until you have set the arrow in place.

Never look for mistakes you cannot correct.

If you can distinguish good advice from bad, you don't need advice.

Distress is the mother of inventions.

[Oppiminen]