Quotes About Learning

And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

Knowledge is Life with wings

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last

And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

Neither youth nor childhood is folly or incapacity

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love...

El camino del exceso conduce al palacio de la sabiduría.

we think we understand all about the human body but actually we know very little.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. . . . – Rumi (p. 123)

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Given the somewhat dubious and sectarian reputation of madrasas today, it is worth remembering that many of the most brilliant Hindu thinkers, including, for example, the great reformer Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), were the products of madrasa educations.

what young men in our colleges learn through those of Greek and Latin—that is grammar, rhetoric, and logic. After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena); and

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.