Khalil Gibran Quotes, Writing Quotes, Learning Quotes

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

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Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn.

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There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

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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.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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