Dalai Lama Quotes

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.

Everything in life, bad or good, makes you change and grow - happily, because if it didn't, we'd be machines.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

I surround myself by people smarter than me.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops,—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them. All this must be done by his reason.

Sometimes you have to be very bad before you can be very good.

Well, everybody's human, and you're not going to do the right thing perfectly every time. But you mess up and you learn from it and you go on from there.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.