Things take indeed a wondrous turn when learned men do stoop to learn.[Das hat die Welt nicht oft gesehn Daß Lehrer selbst ans Lernen gehn.]
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge — that is everywhere.
There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing.
The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time.
Tell me, what use is prayer, contemplation, or learning? Does prayer grow rye? Does contemplation fill a fishing net? Does learning build a house or plow a field?
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.
