Quotes About Learning

There is a difference between seeking to know things for the sake of knowledge itself and being willing to undergo renunciation to be possessed by the truth.

There is certainly a place for the college and the clinic, but really, do we need a Ph.D. in motherhood or a master's degree in friendship?

Teamwork: What did you do today to lend a hand to a colleague? Respect: What did you do today to acknowledge the work of one of your colleagues? Learning: What's one mistake you made in the last week, and what did you learn from it? Continuous improvement: What have you done in the past week to improve so that you're better this week than last? Customer focus: What is one change you made in the last week that came from a customer suggestion?

Learning agility," as they define it, "is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

Expirience is the oracle of truth

In other words, none of us are perfect, spiritual teachers included We are all here in this Earth school to grow and learn in a host of different ways, and only now are we humans beginning to understand how difficult that can be in an increasingly global pluralistic world full of people whose cultures, beliefs, worldviews, and levels of consciousness are very different from our own.

All Christians have access to the spiritual riches found in the Scriptures, which, after all, were written amid the spiritual turmoil and social conflicts of the writers' times. We can learn from those who went before us.

So, when I entered the Jesuits, at age twenty-seven, I did so with only an eleven-year-old's knowledge about the faith.

Aristotle, who believed that we become like the object of our contemplation.

In order to communicate an essential truth, God offered us a parable: Jesus. Jesus is the parable of God. So for the Christian, if you want to learn about God, get to know Jesus.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

Education leads toward a continuing self discovery; training leads toward a final self-definition.