Quotes about Learning

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

Christianity cannot subsist unless men know what Christianity is; and the fair and logical thing is to learn what Christianity is, not from its opponents, but from those who themselves are Christians. That method of procedure would be the only fair method in the case of any movement. [...] Men have abundant opportunity today to learn what can be said against Christianity, and it is only fair that they should also learn something about the thing that is being attacked.

We should always aim to read something different=not only the writers with whom we agree, but those with whom we are ready to do battle. Their point of view challenges us to examine the truth and to test their views...and let us not comment on nor criticize writers of whom we have heard only second-hand, or third-hand without troubling to read their works for ourselves...Don't be afraid of new ideas.

The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?