Quotes about Learning

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

Man lives for science as well as bread.

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

It is because the Spirit of Christ, is not the one only thing that is the Desire of their Hearts; and therefore their Learning only Works in, and with the Spirit of this World, and becomes itself, no small Part of the Vanity of Vanities.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

Could it not be, that God loves me too deeply, by having people challenge me so that I know I'm not perfect.