Quotes about Learning

When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.

You keep taking note of whatever confirms your ideas — better to write down what refutes and weakens them!

Wenn man Bücher bei sich trug, waren Handgreiflichkeiten zu vermeiden. Er trug immer Bücher bei sich.

There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great scholar, if only I could retain everything I've learned from those I have known. But then would I still be me? And isn't all that only words? Words grow old, too; they change their meaning and their usage. They get sick just as we do; they die of their wounds and then they are relegated to the dust of dictionaries. And where am I in all this?

All right, I told myself. I'll also have to learn to eat. And to love. You can learn anything.

To learn is to receive, and then it is to give, and then it is to give again.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

And one more thing: I seek the lessons God wants to teach me, and that means that I ask why.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.