Quotes about Learning

The Archbishop was pointing his index fingers at his head. "You learn when something happens that tests you." And then he was pretending to be speaking as God might. "'Hello, you said you wanted to be more compassionate.' 'Hello, you wanted to be a little more laid-back.

I think reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet. Reading is so important.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

I'm never embarrassed to say, 'I don't know.'

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more.

The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.

Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the mind.

Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is useless and vain.

Blunders are the inevitable price of training leaders. At

Successful leaders have learned that no failure is final, whether his own failure or someone else's. No one is perfect, and we cannot be right all the time. Failures and even feelings of inadequacy can provoke humility and serve to remind a leader who is really in charge.

Why Read? "Read to refill the wells of inspiration