Quotes about Learning

What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with?

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can show off and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

I love to hear myself talk, because I get so much instruction and moral upheaval out of it.

Don't let school interfere with your education.

I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.