Quotes About Learning

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

I want to be a wise woman

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

I went over to my bookshelves, makeshift boards on bricks. I had a lot of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

After all, when you are sick, there are plenty of places (insurance willing) where you can go to get healed, but when you are healed are there any places you can go to learn not to be sick?

I had lots of books, most of them nonfiction, because I'd always felt that in nonfiction, specifically in the disciplines of psychology, philosophy, and theology, I might find clues about ways to live my life.

Sometimes we must all fall out of a tree.

Know ye yet the edda? Know ye yet it all?

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

Ferdinand took advantage of the most advanced education in Portugal

This was nearly the same mistake that Columbus had made over and over

he learned much from his avowed enemy: their trade routes, their science and mapmaking

Your mythology can and will change as you grow older and you learn more about life and the spiritual worlds. You are free to abrogate as many verses of your gospel as you wish, and even to be your own heretic.

The academician commonly is more interested in gaining information to swell his or her bag of facts, than to open him or herself up to psycho-spiritual transmutation. This wisdom would be wasted on those whose only interest is to rape wisdom for academic data.

The Way does not consist of gather more knowledge. Abu Madyan Shu'ayb Ibn al-Husayn al Ansari said: 'Worship saves you from the tyranny of formal knowledge.

Learn how to work and then the Great Work will be revealed to you.

More wisdom can be transmitted through a novel than a textbook.

Cold facts never can sprout into flowers of wisdom.

Therefore, do not attempt to collect a lot of facts, in order to impress others or to obtain one degree after another. The Archons disguise facts so that they appear to be wisdom. What you need in order to strengthen yourself against all forms of Archontic attack, is living knowledge.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. What one has no access to through experience one has no ear for.

I'd go to his classes so that I'd be able to speak his language, the language of science. When he took the podium, he always began by saying, "Fellow students…" He taught me the humility of knowing that we were all, always, students, and that to stop being a student was to stop living. When

the Zen concept of the beginner's mind, the mind that remains open and ready despite years of training. "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities," said Zen master Shunryu Suzuki. "In the expert's mind there are few.

The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.