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Quotes About Learning

Science is about learning 'what something is' and spirituality is about knowing 'who I am'. The
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There is a skill to learning. It is all about what is and what is not. While Science is knowing what is, Art is creating what is not.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
~ St. Augustine
Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion.
~ St. Augustine
Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.
~ St. Augustine
A free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.
~ St. Augustine
The manners then which, when a student, I would not make my own, I was fain as a teacher to endure in others: and so I was well pleased to go where, all that knew it, assured me that the like was not done.
~ St. Augustine
Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.
~ St. Bernard of Clairvaux
To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?
~ St. Bonaventure
To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.
~ St. Teresa of Avila
Men think it lacking in humility and suppose that it is trying to teach those from whom it should learn, especially if the person in question is a woman.
~ St. Teresa of Avila
Beware the man of a single book.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
I think it's a pity she doesn't read because it means we shan't ever be able to talk about the books we've both read and recommend them to one another.
~ Stan Barstow
Look, Papa! Rocks! Right there ahead! We should beware of them as you said.
~ Stan Berenstain
The only advice anybody can give is if you want to be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.
~ Stan Lee
All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. — RICK WARREN
~ Stan Toler
J'ai rencontré quelqu'un qui avait si peu lu qu'il devait inventer lui-même ses citations de classiques.
~ Stanis?aw Jerzy Lec
Even his ignorance is encyclopedic.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Cómo ejercitar la memoria para que aprenda a olvidar?
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Quien olvida fácilmente, pasa mejor el examen de su vida.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec