Quotes About Learning

Wisdom begins at the end.

You can observe a lot by watching.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.