learning Quotes

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.