Quotes About Learning

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

True wisdom lies in one's confession about the limits of one's knowledge.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

Knowledge is speaking, wisdom is listening

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

The wise know too well their weakness to assume infallibility; and he who knows most knows best how little he knows.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

The true Wisdom is in recognizing our own ignorance.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.