Quotes about Learning
If we come with a chip on our shoulder that there is nothing we can learn or no benefit we can get, we will prove ourselves infallible on both counts.
— John Piper
You will leave all your material wealth behind, but a wealth of knowledge goes with you.
— John Piper
If they had more grace to hear, they would receive more that the writer has to give. But they are becoming hard and dull, and in danger of throwing away the little they have.
— John Piper
Education is helping people understand something they don't already understand. Or, more accurately, education is helping people (young or old) learn how to get an understanding that they didn't already have. Education is cultivating the life of the mind so that it knows how to grow in true understanding. That impulse was unleashed by God's inspiring a book with complex demanding paragraphs in it.
— John Piper
If we could live a thousand years, and experience a thousand relationships in the thousand times and places and cultures, perhaps we wouldn't need books in order to (eventually) become wise. But our lives are short, and God has been merciful to give us many places, many times, many cultures, and many experiences distilled into books. Find the ones that strengthen your faith and make you want to live all-out for God.
— John Piper
Reading is more important to me than eating.
— John Piper
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
— John Polkinghorne
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
— John Quincy Adams
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
— John Quincy Adams
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
— John Wesley
Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
— John Wesley
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
— John Wooden