Quotes of: Great-learning Keyword

The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets; many who are in their graves are in reality alive.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Si buscas un maestro, trata de convertirte en un verdadero estudiante. Si quieres ser un estudiante,trata de encontrar un verdadero maestro.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Hay muchas personas caminando por las calles que en realidad están muertas; hay muchas en sus tumbas que están en realidad vivas.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Education occurs when students set out to educate themselves… the student will only learn, can only learn, what he chooses to learn…(An) advantage of not pushing is an innate sense (his) education is (his) responsibility and reward.

Oliver DeMille

Coda Perhaps to love is to learn to walk through this world. To learn to be silent like the oak and the linden of the fable. To learn to see. Your glance scattered seeds. It planted a tree. I talk because you shake its leaves.

Octavio Paz

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.

Odd Hours

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledg...

Emile Durkheim

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

James Meade

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

Tim McGraw

When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet; what's the matter with learning the laws of theater from the people who know how to do it?'

Twyla Tharp

When I first began to learn to sing... I would get off on nearly every line and did not know it. I have learned to know when I am off.

Heber J. Grant