Quotes about Learning

Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. . . . Practice according to what knowledge you have. This will be the way to know more. .

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.

If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.

You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.

If they had more grace to hear, they would receive more that the writer has to give. But they are becoming hard and dull, and in danger of throwing away the little they have.

Education is helping people understand something they don't already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get an understanding that they didn't already have. Education is cultivating the life of the mind so that it knows how to grow in true understanding. That impulse was unleashed by God's inspiring a book with complex demanding paragraphs in it.