Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.