
“To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.”
4th Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (17 February 1971)
1970s
Source: The Analects, Chapter II
溫故而知新,可以為師矣。
“To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.”
4th Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (17 February 1971)
1970s
“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
Source: Shadowlands (1993)
On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986)
“Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 5
Variant: …it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
“Become such as you are, having learned what that is”
Pythian 2, line 72.
Variant translations:
Be what you know you are
Be true to thyself now that thou hast learnt what manner of man thou art
Having learned, become who you are
“When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."”
Antisthenes, 4.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics