Quotes about Learning
Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."
— Oprah Winfrey
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
— Oprah Winfrey
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
— Oprah Winfrey
With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.
— Os Guinness
The way of the disciple is a different and deeper way of learning.
— Os Guinness
The proper school to learn art is not life but art
— Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
— Oswald Chambers
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
— Oswald Chambers
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.
— Oswald Chambers
At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God's hand until we learn to hear Him.
— Oswald Chambers