After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.
– Rick Warren
Worship | Learning
Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.
– Rick Warren
Love | Learning
The best learning I had came from teaching.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Learning
When people fail, we are inclined to find fault with them, but if you look more closely, you will find that God had some particular truth for them to learn, which the trouble they are in is to teach them.
– G.V. Wigram
Failure | Learning
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
– Jeremy Taylor
Learning | Ignorance
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love of pure truth draw you to read. Do not inquire, Who said this? but pay attention to what is said.
– Thomas a Kempis
Books | Truth | Learning
That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.
– Thomas a Kempis
Learning | Reading
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
– John Selden
Learning | Wisdom
Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
– Henry Drummond
Achievement | Life | Learning
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
– David Brainerd
Strength | Contentment | Learning
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
– Thomas a Kempis
Humility | Learning
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
– George Herbert
Learning
The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is an evidence of wisdom.
– Thomas a Kempis
Wisdom | Learning
If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning.
– Thomas a Kempis
Books | Learning | Reading
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
– Isaac Watts
Trust | Learning
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
– Thomas Fuller
Learning
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
– Thomas Fuller
Books | Learning
The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.
– John Wesley
Holiness | Learning
It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.
– Jeremy Taylor
Humility | Learning | Modesty
I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.
– Joseph Hall
Learning