Quotes about Learning

To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.

If my path is with learning and tears and submission, can you not follow that same path?

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

Afternoon classes - that evil invention!

Jesus told us to learn from him how to be meek and humble of heart. We must look at his life if we are to have any concept of what humility is all about.

We don't invent morality; we discover it like we discover multiplication tables.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.