Quotes about Learning

Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Life offers us thousands of opportunities for learning. Every man and every woman, in every day of our lives, always has a good opportunity to surrender to Love. Life is not a long vacation, but a constant learning process. And the most important lesson is learning to love.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Teaching is of more importance than urging.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

No great saint lived without errors.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.