Quotes about Learning
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
— Seneca
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
— Seneca
I used to think you all were missionaries bringing the gospel to your neighborhood, but now I see that it is in your neighborhood that you have learned the gospel, and that you are actually missionaries to the church.
— Shane Claiborne
My critics are my best teachers, but only when they will talk with me, not at me. Unfortunately
— Shane Claiborne
Liturgical theologian Aidan Kavanaugh says it well: "The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is freed to learn things which cannot be taught.
— Shane Claiborne
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
— George Bernard Shaw
I watch 'Batman & Robin' from time to time. It's the worst movie I ever made, so it's a good lesson in humility.
— George Clooney
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
— Henry Ford
Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.
— Epictetus
Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.
— Patrick Lencioni
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
— Dale Carnegie