Quotes about Learning
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
— Mark Twain
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.
— Reba McEntire
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architectural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply to religion as well as to art. Ignorance of the past does not guarantee freedom from its imperfections.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Great achievement! I learn how to be tolerant when I become the victim of somebody else's spiritual pride [1928].
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
— Richard Baxter
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best.
— Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
— Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.
— Richard Baxter