Quotes about Learning

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

Is not prayer also a study of truth, — a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation.

Is it a reply to these suggestions, to say, society is a Pestalozzian school; all are teachers and pupils in turn. We are equally served by receiving and by imparting. Men who know the same things, are not long the best company for each other.

That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.