Quotes about Learning

Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.

These three ways correspond in our tradition to the main aspects of religious existence: worship, learning, and action. The three are one, and we must go all three ways to reach the one destination. For this is what Israel discovered: the God of nature is the God of history, and the way to know Him is to do His will.

It is the Bible that enables us to know the Bible.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully ) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

We are idiots now, we have been idiots in the past and we will be idiots again in the future - and that is OK.