LEARNING
FROM ALL SOURCES

I make it my rule to lay hold of light and embrace it, though it be held forth by a child or an enemy.

Jonathan Edwards

You will find many things help honest living, and you should not refuse whatever an author (even though a gentile) teaches well. It is profitable to taste all manner of learning of the gentiles, if it is done with caution and judgment discreetly – and furthermore with speed and like someone intending only to pass through the country and not to stay or live there. In conclusion, and this is the most important, everything must be applied and referred to Christ.

Erasmus

It is allowable to learn even from an enemy.

Latin proverb

Improve yourself by others’ experience: so shall you quickly acquire what others labor and long for.

Socrates

From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Publilius Syrus