Quotes About Learning

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.

The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.