Quotes About Learning

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.