Quotes About Learning

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Find someone who is willing to share the truth with you.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Truth is more in the process than in the result.

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Stevie can learn anything from a book. And when it comes to psychiatry, she's read them all. So she wields guilt like a master swordsman. And Max isn't nearly as much of a psychopath as the social worker said because otherwise, she wouldn't feel any guilt at all. At least that's what I tell myself. All the time.

Act like you know what you are doing, listen hard, and eventually you will know what you are doing.

Learning and receiving revelation must necessarily include both the heart and the mind, or thoughts, and feelings. Intellect alone cannot produce a testimony. You cannot think your way to conversion, because you cannot convince your mind of something your heart does not feel.

Asking inspired questions leads to knowledge. It leads to revelation. It leads to greater faith. And it leads to peace. Not asking questions, on the other hand, closes off revelation, growth, learning, progression, and the ministering of the Holy Ghost.

When like-minded men who are all dedicated and committed to the same cause have a difference of opinion, that just means we need more information," President Nelson explained. "We don't need to debate it longer at that point, we need to go back and study it more and gather more information, because we don't yet have enough information to agree.

The compelling truth of the Restoration is that the heavens are open. This Church is a Church of revelation. Our challenge is not one in getting the Lord to speak to us. Our challenge is learning to hear what He has to say.

I think... girls have a hard time being interesting. It's actually easier to be famous, or notorious, than it is to be interesting. In our world, girls climb very well until they hit puberty-sexual maturity-and then they begin to fall out of the tree. They start role-playing instead of thinking, flirting instead of learning. They start admiring how smart the boys are-or how athletic or how handsome-instead of concentrating on their own intelligence.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

Los títulos que forman nuestra primera biblioteca de adultos son la piedra basal de aquello en que deseamos convertirnos.

Our business is to find homes for books with the hope they will be loved as we have loved them. My heart is broken every day I make a sale; then renewed again by the arrival of an unexpected replacement. I keep learning to love again.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.