Quotes About Learning

We are only carried away by the skills of public speaking, but none of us cares about the skill of listening. Thus, learning has become a burden to many of us.

We have been teaching exactly the same things that we claim to avoid in life.

We learn best by making mistakes. At the end of the day, practice is what matters the most.

We learn better when we are alone, instead of getting involved with large groups of people.

What benefit will I get if I know one book from cover to cover? —Isn't this filling my mind with the ideas of others and losing creativity?!

What is the use of having a new generation without inspiration? It's such a shame that we learn more from the dead than from the living.

What will you gain by knowing facts? —I would rather know the principles than facts. Because facts are changeable like the wind and can't be relied upon!

You have got nothing to fear except the ignorance of your intelligence or lack of knowledge.

You have to learn the meaning of truth if you are to find it in life.

I always thought education was learning to think for yourself

You could get crickets to pop out of a book as a little, little girl, but now you have to relearn it? Well, children can do so many things until they're told they can't.

I always thought education was learning to think for yourself," Keating said. Nolan laughed. "At these boys' ages? Not on your life! Tradition John! Discipline." He patted Keating on the shoulder patronizingly. "Prepare them for college, and the rest will take care of itself.

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.

The New Testament's vision of Christian behavior has to do, not with struggling to keep a bunch of ancient and apparently arbitrary rules, nor with "going with the flow" or "doing what comes naturally", but with the learning of the language, in the present, which will equip us to speak it fluently in God's new world.

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

In a sense, learning to follow Jesus is simply learning to pray the Lord's Prayer.

Among other beliefs, I hold more firmly than ever to the conviction that serious study of Jesus and the gospels is best done within the context of a worshipping community.

But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.

Perhaps, indeed, that is what "holy scripture" really is — not a calm, serene list of truths to be learned or commands to be obeyed, but a jagged book that forces you to grow up in your thinking as you grapple with it.

Hope" in this sense is not a feeling. It is a virtue. You have to practice it, like a difficult piece on the violin or a tricky shot at tennis. You practice the virtue of hope through worship and prayer, through invoking the One God, through reading and reimagining the scriptural story, and through consciously holding the unknown future within the unshakable divine promises. Saul had learned to do this. Paul the Apostle, much later, would have to learn the same lesson all over again.

Paul does of course want the young Christians to develop to the point where, as mature followers of Jesus Christ, they will gradually find that the Christian habits of heart and life "come naturally." But to get to that point they must learn

A biblical commentary is first and foremost a work of history. But history is a matter of learning not only the tune but also the rhythm and the harmonies.

The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.