Quotes About Learning

To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson

One heartbreak is like a thousand lessons. Loving again is learning them.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

Practice makes perfect.....But nobody's perfect......so why practice?

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since.

Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed

Ignorance never settle a question.

We can only learn to love by loving.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

Laugh about your mistakes, but, learn from them. Joke over you troubles, but, gather strength from them. Have fun with your difficulties, but overcome them. That's the way to live life.