Quotes about Learning

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.

These three ways correspond in our tradition to the main aspects of religious existence: worship, learning, and action. The three are one, and we must go all three ways to reach the one destination. For this is what Israel discovered: the God of nature is the God of history, and the way to know Him is to do His will.

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.