Quotes About Learning

Understanding is the beginning of both wisdom and compassion.

Richard Dawkins lamented,9 we think that our kids need to have "fun, fun, fun" rather than, say, experience wonder or interest (they are not the same thing) when going to school or a museum.

To paraphrase Ben Zoma: "Who is wise? The one who learns from all traditions." I have learned valuable lessons from other traditions while maintaining my own identity and beliefs. This teaching also calls me to listen to those whose political opinions differ from mine. How wise our world would become if only we would all learn from each other!

Such Christian frameworks of meaning encourage a positive expectation on the part of believers that something may be learned and gained through illness and suffering.

are we going to teach the best of what we currently know about the world (however provisional such knowledge may be), or shall we decide if the earth is flat or round by majority consensus?

No company like good books, especially the book of God.

Aprenderás a masticar los cataclismos, pequeño, y te los tragarás!

Onlar? korkutmadan kesebilirim… ve naçiz hizmetkar?n?z, Kar?nde?en Jack diye imzalar?m! Korkma evlat, ya?amak için korkutmay? çok çabuk ö?reneceksin… (syf. 43)

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.

A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.

A student of wisdom becomes a professor of life.

A wise man is a student though he is a teacher.

An ounce of wisdom can earn you a ton of gold.

Books are kinder teachers than experience.

Do today what will profit you tomorrow. Avoid forever what did not profit you yesterday.

Educate your mind, knowledge is power. Guard your heart, life springs from it.

Failing over and over again is how you learn to succeed over and over again.

Mistakes are lessons inside out.

Pearls of wisdom are better than necklaces of diamonds.

Reading is the best cure for ignorance.

School is a temple of knowledge, the library is a temple of wisdom, and Church is a temple of God.

Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.