Daisaku Ikeda Quotes

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

I am passionate about human rights.

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.

Working through experience is best for me, just being there and trying to get into the mode.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

All the problems that fall to the League may ultimately be reduced to one - that of man, and the dignity of man.

What does the American Negro want? Full citizen status in our American democracy. How shall he reach that goal? By the inward power of the masses. And how shall that power be acquired? Fundamentally, on the highest plane and on the humblest, by a leadership motivated by a world-encompassing philosophy which is rooted in the will of God—a leadership which, itself a vital part of the force of events, is consecrated in humility to the immediate and practical education of the people.

The future begins today! What is important is what we do today and tomorrow for Tunisia and all its children. We must work hand in hand.

The best way to learn is getting out there, getting reps, and making mistakes.

When any part of humanity is sidelined, the rest of us cannot sit on the sidelines.

I think we all learn by doing rather than thinking about doing.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.