Quotes about Learning

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.

One who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian.

Perhaps you still think you ought to think out beforehand and know what you ought to do. To that there is only one answer. You can only know and think about it by actually doing it. You can only learn what obedience is by obeying. It is no use asking questions; for it is only through obedience that you come to learn the truth.

The distinction between objective and personal thinking must truly first be learned. Many people never learn this (look at our colleagues in the ministry! among others).

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.