Dalai Lama Quotes

Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

Every player can still grow - there is no limit to that. Even when I was 38, I improved myself in certain things, and that is what I will always do with my players to help them get the best out of themselves.

Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam. Instruction enlarges the natural powers of the mind.

I think you should never put boundaries on yourself. You should always want to grow.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

You have to continue to learn. That's how you develop. So the people who show that curiosity, that ambition, that willingness to do what it takes to improve and to get better, they're the people who are going to be successful in the long term.

Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

I think what we can do is to develop this incredible computer that we have on our heads, because it's endless. It's just the most brilliant thing we have to develop, and know that we have the power over all of it.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand