Quotes about Learning

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

Christians are not born but made.

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

An old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils: Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.