Quotes about Learning

If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

I think it made me all that much stronger of a writer when you have to teach yourself how to say words from scratch.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

Those who cannot learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.

As the wise, old Abbot Moses said when a brother came to him for a good word, "Go, sit in your cell [a monk's room], and your cell will teach you everything.

Paul was the only scholar among the apostles. He never displays his learning, considering it of no account as compared with the excellency of the knowledge of Christ, for whom he suffered the loss of all things, but he could not conceal it, and turned it to the best use after his conversion. Peter and John had natural genius, but no scholastic education; Paul had both, and thus became the founder of Christian theology and philosophy.

During my pre-college years, I went on many trips with my father into the oil fields to visit their operations. On Saturday mornings, I often went with him to visit the company shop. I puttered around the machine, electronics, and automobile shops while he carried on his business.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.

I think I've learned a lot on the vocal side of things.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

I have had a very fun, positive experience in seminary. It's taught me a lot.