21 Quotes About Learning

After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

The best learning I had came from teaching.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach them.

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, Who said this? but pay attention to what is said.

If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.