Quotes about Learning
Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.
— Ellen White
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.
— Walt Whitman
Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.
— Napoleon Hill
I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.
— Cicero
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
— Winston Churchill
Bad nature never lacks an instructor.
— Publilius Syrus
One can never study nature too much and too hard
— Vincent Van Gogh
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
— John Adams
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
— Tertullian