Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library the doors to learning are always open.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

A man only learns in two ways one by reading and the other by association with smarter people.

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.

A smart man makes a mistake learns from it and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Man learns through experience and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.