Quotes about Learning

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

Carefully studying the Bible will reveal to us our own ignorance of these things. It will challenge us to reject a superficial understanding of Christianity and impress on us that it is imperative not to simply be religious or moral, but also to master the Bible intellectually, integrate its principles into our lives morally, and put into action what we have learned practically.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Oh, be wise, thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.