The one who loves learning learns from everything (and everyone).

—Pope Shenouda III, Words of Spiritual Benefit Vol. 1

​​That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

―Albert Camus

However great your knowledge may be, you cannot understand as long as you do not love. Love is much nobler than intellect. The logic of love is much more sublime than that of the intellect.
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Human beings have more knowledge than wisdom. Their theories have become in their minds like the fog on the mountains and in the valleys; they prevent them from seeing things as they are. Their theories rob them of sight.

—St. Charbel, Love is a Radiant Light

Humble knowledge of self is a surer path to God than the ardent pursuit of learning. Not that learning is to be considered evil, or knowledge, which is good in itself and so ordained by God; but a clean conscience and virtuous life ought always to be preferred. Many often err and accomplish little or nothing because they try to become learned rather than to live well.

—Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

If we are not careful, the acquisition of knowledge will so occupy this life that we shall need another to reduce our acquirements into practice.

—François Fénelon, Spiritual Progress

“Many often err and accomplish little or nothing because they try to become learned rather than to live well.”

—Bernard of Clairvaux