Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

When you're a child you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start talking like the people you're around. I wasn't conscious that I was so good at that until I started to truly feel like an actor.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

The human is indissolubly linked with imitation: a human being only becomes human at all by imitating other human beings.

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling from others.

Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day.

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

You can teach what you know, but you can only reproduce what you are.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

[To learn] is to harness Nature; to spare man all that is most physical, backbreaking, and brutish in the work of production; to make mind master over matter.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.

Forget what you learned about poetry in school. (That it's complex, opaque, a problem to be solved in 1500 words by tomorrow.) Poetry is the last preserve of honest speech and the outspoken heart. It holds the cadence of common life. It has a passion for truth and justice and liberty; it is a buoy to people in ordinary trouble: to a friend whose life has gone skidding into the meridian, who has been struck by bad news, who is frying eggs and hash browns and has whiny child clinging to his pant leg.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.