Quotes About Learning

If our testimonies are strong onthis point and if we feel the absolute assurance that God loves us, we will change our questons. We won't ask, 'Why did this happen?' or 'Why doesn't God care about me?' Instead, our questions will become, 'What can I learn from this experience?' or 'How does the Lord want me to handle this?

embrace your hard times. "God already knows what we're made of, but perhaps He wants us to learn what we're made of. I think we would all agree that we learn more from our tough times than from our easy times." ~John Bytheway #QuotesForLife

One of the best things I did during my single years was read books and listen to tapes on marriage. (You can't be too conspicuous, of course.) I learned so much about what makes good marriages work that it changed why I dated, how I dated, and even whom I dated.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening--even, perhaps, a falling in love.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him.

It takes wisdom to know what we don't know

It is dangerous ... to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experience.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

Is ignorance so hard to bear, then? There is so very much in life we do not know … .

Why is it that children, taught the names of the months and the fact that there are twelve of them, don't ask why the ninth is called the seventh (September), the tenth called the eight (October), the eleventh called the ninth (November), the twelfth called the tenth (December)?

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After some years the mistake was discovered. Letter was sent to each student inviting him to resume his studies. Each replied he was getting along very well without education.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

Now, in order that true religion may shine upon us, we ought to hold that it must take its beginning from heavenly doctrine and that no one can get even the slightest taste of right and sound doctrine unless he be a pupil of Scripture.

God] does not bind the ancient folk to outward doctrine as if they were learning their ABC's.

that there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.

O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

but that the necessity of being constantly engaged in learning is owing to our imperfection, he at the same time reminds us, that a subject which is of boundless extent cannot be comprehended by our feeble and narrow capacities.