learning on Avoidance

A man who worked at an aviary in a bird park went to an outdoor wedding. He kept looking up until a friend finally asked him why. The man replied, “Sorry, I’m used to looking up to avoid falling bird ...

One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning.

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly t...

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Learn to understand more by not understanding than by understanding.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid aga...

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

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 t...

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures. . . . I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.

Richard Mouw, the former president of Fuller Seminary and a professor of philosophy, shares an amusing anecdote from a lecture by the esteemed Catholic ethicist Charles Curran. During his talk, Curran...

Every now and then it shows through the clouds that are moving across its face. One moment it looks like the eye of a hawk in profile. The next it looks like the eye at the top of the pyramid on a dol...

Leader: To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; People: The wise will hear and will learn; and one with understanding will listen to wisdom. Leader: To understand p...

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Pray as you can, not as you can’t.

Whether playing baseball or basketball, one of the first sports lessons kids are taught is the counterintuitive truth that focusing too much on aiming where you want for the ball to go is likely to ba...

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way.

We learn to live by living together with others, and by living like them—a process which has disadvantages as well as blessings.

Faith does not grow in spite of suffering, but through suffering, when hope learns to contradict reality.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

At eighteen, a self-assured Benjamin Franklin returned to Boston, the city he had fled just seven months earlier. Dressed in a fine new suit, with a watch on his wrist and a pocket full of coins, he p...

The late comedian Sam Levenson enjoyed sharing funny anecdotes about his childhood, especially his early school days. One of his favorite stories was about his first day of school, when his overly pro...

I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...