Quotes About Learning

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude.

Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

Wisdom doesn't go out of style, even if it's in increasingly short supply.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

Years teach us more than books.

Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom....subtract.

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.