Quotes about Learning

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Jesus didn't come just to tweak things, but to overthrow the kingdom of this world. We are slow to learn and need more stories to help us catch God's kingdom vision and even to help us make sense of the example Jesus sets for us.

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

Imitation is a necessity of human nature.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.