Quotes About Learning

Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." - John Calvin

lack of firm knowledge rarely equates with complete ignorance.

I simply will never stop learning because I don´t want to tie myself just to one way of making a living.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Prayer is learning to live, without expecting to see results; it is learning to love, without hoping to see return; it is learning to be, without demanding to have. We cannot live and love and simply be, unless we are consumed by a total commitment to detachment.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

He who laughs most, learns best

Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative.

To be a farmer is to be a student forever, for each day brings something new.

something we are poorly developed to retain, e.g., a phone number), into something easier to remember (and that we are better developed to remember).

In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.

He had a love of books, for in books was recorded the knowledge of all those who had gone before him.

Being clever is not just about how much you know, but about knowing that you really don't know very much at all.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized that I wasn't as clever as I thought

I was a child who loved books, and I am an adult who is the product of books.

Perhaps it was just a function of realizing, as the years went by, how little he really knew about very much at all.

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read, and how everything that they ever needed to know about life and the land of which he wrote, or about any land or realm that they could imagine, was contained in books. And some of the children understood, and some did not.

When did you get so clever?" "When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.