Quotes About Learning

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

Within each experience of pain or negativity is the opportunity to challenge the perception that lies behind it and to choose to learn with wisdom.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.

Actually I feel I'm a better player; more mentally. I guess you get better with age people say. You have a lot more wisdom.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.