• Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it

in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become

others.
• Study, and then meditate on what you have studied.
• The secret of life is not enjoyment, but education through
experience.
• The object of life is to learn.
• The more we know the better for us.
• You have to teach yourself; your growth must come
from inside.
• It is man-making education all round that we want.
• Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it
in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become
others.
• We must have life-building, man-making, character-
making assimilation of ideas.
• Teaching
1. He alone teaches who has something to give.
2. Negative thought weakens. Do you not find that where
parents are constantly taxing their sons to read and write,
telling them they will never learn anything, and calling them
fools and so forth, the latter do actually turn out to be so in
many cases?
If you speak kind words to boys and encourage them, they are
bound to improve in time. What holds good of children, also holds
good of children in the region of higher thoughts.
If you can give them positive ideas, people will grow up to be men
and learn to stand on their own legs. In language and literature, in
poetry and arts--------------in everything we must point out not the
mistakes that people are making in their thoughts and actions, but
the way in which they will gradually be able to do these things
better. Pointing out mistakes wounds a man’s feelings.
3. No one was ever really taught by another; each of us
has to teach himself.
4. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
5. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach
you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other
teacher but your own soul.
6. All teaching, implies giving and taking.
7. Education can never be carried out by criticism or
discouragement. Only he who sees the noblest thing in
the taught can be an effective teacher.
8. None can teach another.
• Men must have education. They speak of democracy, of
the equality of all men, these days. But how will a man
know he is equal with all?
• Whenever you learn (gain anything) from another
man’s words, know that you had the experience in a
previous existence, because experience is the only
teacher.
• Let positive, strong, helpful thought enter into their
brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to
these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing
ones.
• My motto is to learn whatever good things I may come
across anywhere.
• Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in
vain.
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