Quotes About Learning

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

All wisdom is rooted in learning to call things by the right name. When things are properly identified, they fall into natural categories and understanding becomes orderly.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

If we don't know our own history, we are deemed to live it.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it.

In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.