Quotes on Learning More

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.