Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. 640
Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. 624
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. 2.5K
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. 706
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. 628
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. 606
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. 608
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. 2.34K
