Truth, Beauty, and Goodness: 16 Love of Learning Quotes
To the naked eye, truth, beauty, and goodness can be difficult to come by these days. But make no mistake about it, they’re out there. They are in the hearts and homes of those who intentionally pursue them.
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Quotes That Inspire
Enjoy this collection of sixteen quotes that inspire a love for truth, beauty, goodness, and a love of learning. Memorize them, or post them in special spots around your home:
Aristotle
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” The Complete Work of Aristotle
Charlotte Mason
“There is no education but self education.” A Philosophy of Education
Maria Montessori
“The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.” Maria Montessori: Her Life and Work
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Brigham Young
“I would advise you to read books that are worth reading; read reliable history, and search wisdom out of the best books you can procure.”
Charles Spurgeon
“The power of a mother’s prayers with all her children kneeling around is far greater than any public ministry.” Morning and Evening Insights
“Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.” Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
Charlotte Mason
Isaac Asimov
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.”
Brigham Young
“Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.”
Orison Swett Marsden
“While the students at Andover were waiting for breakfast at the boarding-house,” said a lady, “the rest of the young men would stand chaffing each other ; but Joseph Cook, if there were only a half minute to spare, would turn to the big dictionary in the corner of the room, and learn the synonyms of a word, or search out its derivation.” It is a cheap thing to say that Joseph Cook has evidently swallowed the dictionary, and cheap people often make the remark ; but our age has not produced many nobler geniuses nor a more magnificent specimen of true self-culture.” Premium Collection
“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
Ludwig von Mises
Sally Clarkson
“Learning, growing in curiosity, pondering ideas, and creating new thoughts are not dependent primarily on academic studies or finding the right curriculum. It is not only about teaching every fact or subject our students need to know.
Instead, it is about an organic lifestyle that synthesizes family, home, classroom, and life, and honors the human beings we serve. This means our plans will be constantly changing; we will grow and be stretched, developing life-giving goals in the scope of our moments.
Exposing my children to a vast smorgasbord of culture expressed through art, music, theater, architecture, history, and travel was one of the most profoundly influential foundations for their intellect, faith, and engagement in academics.” Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child’s Heart to the Beauty of Learning
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Sarah Menck
“Mothers of young children, your work is most holy. You are fashioning the destinies of immortal souls…Be faithful…
I’m looking straight ahead at a few months of summer, and I know there’s an opportunity for me here. The temptation, of course, is to fall flat on my back in exhaustion, grateful that another school year has ended, glad for the reprieve before a new one begins.
But it doesn’t work that way. My students are my own children, and they are beholding me on a camping trip in July as much as they are on a school day in September. So what will I gaze at, contemplate, behold?
Summer is not for the absence of work, but for work of a different order- not leisure in the sense of recreation, but leisure in the sense of re-creation. It’s for contemplation, reflection, delighting in, for the slow drinking in of great ideas and meaningful connections.
If they’re beholding me, then I’d best be intentional about what I’m beholding myself. I’m setting out this summer to do just that: Behold Truth, Behold Beauty, Behold Goodness, Behold Them.”
Rachel Woodham
“…mothers should read philosophy, study math, and enjoy classical art and music. There is nothing about loving God with our minds that conflicts with motherhood…We model what it is to love God with all our heart and soul and mind. My kids have watched me inch my way through graduate school because I value learning. They think that reading and writing and discussing ideas is what mothers do. They have no idea that most mothers don’t listen to Plato or Augustine or Dante on the way to Costco.”
“I would like to propose a simple standard (though by no means the only one) by which to assess your year: Use the transcendentals of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Instead of asking how much we did and whether we finished, or measuring our success by a number of days or hours or a test score, I’m taking a look at our year and asking the following questions: “Did we seek beauty? Did we seek goodness? Did we seek truth?”
Kristen Rudd
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.” The Education of Man
Isaac Asimov
“Education isn’t something you can finish.”
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