„I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.“

„There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!“

—  Edwin Lefèvre, buch Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Quelle: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter IV, p. 51

„I don’t know how else to teach you what you need to learn except by showing you your mistakes over and over again until you stop making them.“

—  Christopher Paolini, buch Inheritance

Arya
Inheritance (2011)

„You can't get rid of thoughts, and you can't get rid of thinking. To battle your mind is one of the most deceptive ways that the mind keeps you in its own domain.“

—  Adyashanti Spiritual teacher 1962

The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)

„As you grow spiritually, you will find yourself teaching more as you learn more. Your learning and your teaching will take place even in your sleep.“

—  Bhakti Tirtha Swami American Hindu writer 1950 - 2005

Quelle: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 1: Dreams: A State of Reality, p. 26

„Teach what you know to him who does not know, and learn from him who knows what you do not know. If you would do this you would learn what you have not known and would retain what you have already known.“

—  Abu Hamid al-Ghazali Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic 1058 - 1111

al-Ghazali https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-imam-al-ghazali-quotes-on-success/

„You will not be, you cannot be, satisfied with anything less than Self-knowledge. You, as feeling-and-desire, are the responsible doer of your Triune Self; from what you have made for yourself as your destiny you must learn two great lessons which all experiences of life are to teach. These lessons are:
What to do,
and,
What not to do.
You may put these lessons off for as many lives as you please, or learn them as soon as you will — that is for you to decide, but in the course of time you will learn them.“

—  Harold W. Percival, buch Thinking and Destiny

Introduction, p. 24
Thinking and Destiny (1946)

„No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

1st Public Talk, Bangalore, India (30 January 1971)
1970s

„Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.“

—  Jerry Seinfeld American comedian and actor 1954

I'm Telling You for the Last Time (1998)

„Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.“

—  Charlaine Harris, buch Dead as a Doornail

Quelle: Dead as a Doornail

„Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.“

—  Yagyū Munenori samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period 1571 - 1646

A Hereditary Book on the Art of War (1632)

„When you learn, teach, when you get, give.“

—  Maya Angelou American author and poet 1928 - 2014

„Rather than let the rejections deter you from your objectives, simply aim to learn what the rejections teach you.“

—  Nigel Cumberland British author and leadership coach 1967

Quelle: Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), p.35

„In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.“

—  Phil Collins English musician, songwriter and actor 1951

„I think it's rarely about what you actually learn in class it's mostly about things that you stay motivated to go and continue to do on your own.“

—  Maryam Mirzakhani Iranian mathematician 1977 - 2017

Maryam Mirzakhani press conference after winning Field's Medal | august 2014

„I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything.“

—  E. L. Konigsburg American writer and illustrator 1930 - 2013

Mrs. Frankweiler in From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967)

„I think the art of filmmaking is something you learn through actions, by doing it, not by learning theories. And as you do it, your mind starts to change.“

—  Alejandro Jodorowsky Filmmaker and comics writer 1929

Anarchy and Alchemy: the Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky by Ben Cobb (2007) p. 115

„Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.“

—  Haruki Murakami, buch Naokos Lächeln

Quelle: Norwegian Wood

„Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.“

—  W.E.B. Du Bois American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868 - 1963

„All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.“

—  Brian W. Aldiss, buch Greybeard

Quelle: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 171)