Quotes about Learning
It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.
— Rick Warren
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
— Henri Nouwen
Look behind you: What have you learned? Look around you: What is happening to others? Look above you: What does God expect of you? Look besides you: What resources are available to you?
— John Maxwell
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
— Oprah Winfrey
Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.
— Charles Spurgeon
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
— Confucius
Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
— Mark Twain
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
— Heinrich Heine
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
— Mortimer Adler
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
— William Hazlitt
A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.
— Pope Benedict XVI