Quotes about Learning

But never hold back from firing the arrow if all that paralyses you is fear of making a mistake. If you have made the right movements, open your hand and release the string. Even if the arrow fails to hit the target, you will learn how to improve your aim next time.

When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision.

What is a master? I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

You should pay more attention to the caravan, the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination. And you ought to read more about the world, answered the Englishman. Books are like caravans in that respect.

One must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants.

Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.

Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something

The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.

As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.