Quotes about Learning

The scars of others should teach us caution.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.

They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.