Quotes about Learning

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

I used to think you all were missionaries bringing the gospel to your neighborhood, but now I see that it is in your neighborhood that you have learned the gospel, and that you are actually missionaries to the church.

My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately

Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.

Each of us, whatever our talents, has service to give. And to do it well always involves learning, not once or for a limited time, but continually.