Quotes About Learning

as a teen parent, I enlisted in the U.S. Army. Did my advanced individual training at Fort Benning, then I was stationed with the 25th Infantry at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Spent four years out there with the Tropic Lightning outfit, firing rifles and grenade launchers, riding around in armored personnel carriers—learning

Once I had every trade certificate I could get at Corcoran, I enrolled in a two-year college program. It had been

so long since my last stint in college, but my aptitude for academics came back to me quickly.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.

Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.

I longed to teach, but I had to wait until the desire had left me before I could really do so.

Teaching: One hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer. Saying of the Prophet

Saying of the Prophet Practice Who are the learned? Those who put into practice what they know.

The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

Saying of the Prophet Obligation to Learn The pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim.

Saying of the Prophet. Ink and Blood: The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Learning without action is like wax without honey. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)