Quotes About Learning

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

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

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.