John Campbell Shairp: Quotes about learning

John Campbell Shairp was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on learning.

John Campbell Shairp: 28 quotes0 likes

“Were it not well, then, to begin with the substance, to learn to apprehend the reality of that kingdom which is all around us now, whether we recognize it or not, — to take our aims and endeavors into it, that they may be made part of it, however small, — to surrender ourselves to it, that our lives may do something towards its advancement, and that we may become fellow-workers, however humble, with all the wise and good who have gone before us, and with Him who made them what they are?”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 269.

“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 565.

“The fact is those root-truths on which the foundations of our being rest, are apprehended not logically at all, but mystically. This faculty of spiritual apprehension, which is a very different one from those which are trained in schools and colleges, must be educated and fed, not less, but more carefully than our lower faculties, else it will be starved and die, however learned and able in other respects we may become.”

John Campbell Shairp

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563.