Quotes About Learning

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.

Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.