Quotes About Learning

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.

The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

Those who love wisdom must investigate many things

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.