When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.
Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.
This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.