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May you find great value in these Student quotes and sayings.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
- Buddhist Proverb
Related topics: Wisdom Buddhist Lesson Intention
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
The most important outcome of education
is to help students become independent of formal education.
- Paul E. Gray
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
- Confucius
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi (Persian poet 1207-1273)
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
Study nature, love nature,
stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is evil which is according to nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That sense of sacredness,
that thinking in generations,
must begin with reverence for this earth.
- Paul Tsongas
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me,
that man with all his noble qualities...
still bears in his bodily frame
the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin
There is sanctuary in being alone with nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The fog unrolls itself to be a prayer rug to the mountains.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Being part of the natural world reminds me
that innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Trees are the earth's endless effort
to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Pay attention to rainbows, and snowflakes,
butterflies and the songs of birds,
the crash of storm-driven waves
and the mirror-surface of a quiet pond.
Let the depths of nature become a part of your innermost being.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The future has nothing in common with the past -
except natural laws and human nature.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When nature has work to be done,
she creates a genius to do it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed,
but nature does not depend on us.
We are not the only experiment.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
Look deep into nature, and then
you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
Ecstasy is our very nature;
not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary.
To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous.
It needs no effort to be ecstatic,
it needs great effort to be miserable.
That's why you look to tired,
because misery is really hard work;
to maintain it is really difficult,
because you are doing something against nature.
- Osho
Joy in looking and comprehending
is nature's most beautiful gift.
- Albert Einstein
There are certain pursuits which,
if not wholly poetic and true,
do at least suggest a nobler and finer
relation to nature than we know.
The keeping of bees, for instance.
- Henry David Thoreau
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Nature will bear the closest inspection.
She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf,
and take an insect view of its plain.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity;
so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it.
I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All my life through, the new sights
of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are moments when all anxiety
and stated toil are becalmed
in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is not human hearted.
- Lao Tzu
Nature never breaks her own laws.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing.
None is excluded, but excludes himself.
You have only to push aside the curtain.
- Henry David Thoreau
"Beginner Mind" is a Zen Buddhist term
that describes moving past our assumptions
of the nature of our life,
and really SEEING our surroundings -
especially the people we interact with -
with new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- John Muir
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station,
through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own.
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
- John Muir
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation,
not because of any lack of order in nature.
- Albert Einstein
Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
What a book a devil's chaplain might write
on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low,
and horribly cruel work of nature!
- Charles Darwin
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
- Native American traditional
Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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