Quotes About Learning

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Understanding the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an is by far, higher than memorizing.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Experiences are the seeds out of which wisdom grows.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

The goal of good health is to enable a person to acquire wisdom.

There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

We learn from failure, not from success!

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

A man must become wise at his own expense.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I sit and talk to kids all day, because I feel like they carry the most wisdom.