Quotes about Learning

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. MATTHEW 11:29 (NIV)

7Knowledge begins with respect for the LORD, but fools hate wisdom and discipline.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug.

You do your best until you know better, then you do better.

I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

For years, I had known that there is nothing idle about curiosity, despite the fact that the two words are often used in tandem. Curiosity fidgets, is hard to satisfy, looks for answers even before forming questions.

When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece—it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us.

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.