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Quotes About Learning

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
~ Adoniram Judson
There's no way in hell I could have achieved what I have without being a good student and listening to the wisdom of others
~ Phil Heath
Don't mistake knowledge for wisdom.
~ Lil B
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.
~ John Frederick Demartini
As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
~ Barbara W. Winder
Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
~ Pythagoras
Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it.
~ Socrates
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
~ George Iles
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
~ Vernon Cooper
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
~ Robert E. Lee
Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.
~ Donald McCaig
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
He who understands the wise is wise already.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!
~ Ali Sina
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
~ Laozi
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.
~ Charles Kettering