Arthur Koestler Quotes

For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer.

There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

All learning is in the learner, not in the teacher.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I call myself a teacher because they want me to call myself a teacher, but actually, what I'm doing is I'm studying.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

You have to learn your own details before you can teach them.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

We think we learn from teachers, and we sometimes do. But the teachers are not always to be found in school or in great laboratories. Sometimes what we learn depends upon our own powers of insight.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.