Quotes about Learning

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

After God had carried us safe to New-England, and wee had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worship, and setled the Civill Government: One of the next things we longed for, and looked after was to advance Learning and perpetuate it to Posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate Ministery to the Churches, when our present Ministers shall lie in the Dust.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

Being bridled, or yielding obediently to restraint, is necessary for our personal growth and progression.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Whoever resorts regularly to the lessons of Holy Scripture as an apt pupil will take the Savior into her group, and the children will perceive that He is present and that He assists in their work; thus, He will take possession of their souls.

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.