Quotes about Learning

We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

The pathway to maturity and to solid biblical food is not first becoming an intelligent person, but becoming an obedient person.

Which means, therefore, that our Bible reading is never just for seeing, never just for learning and doctrine. It is not even just for savoring, if that savoring is thought of in a private way that leaves us unchanged in our relationship with others. No. We read the Bible—we always read the Bible—for the kind of seeing and savoring Christ that transforms us into his likeness.

Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice. . . . Practice according to what knowledge you have. This will be the way to know more. .

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Asking questions is the key to understanding.

A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus.

Student—"any person who studies, investigates, or examines thoughtfully.

What I have learned from about twenty years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don't begrudge the 99%.