Quotes About Learning

No man was ever wise by chance.

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

What I have sought is to understand what has been said.

Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.

Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

The beginning of all wisdom is to understand that you don't know. To know is the enemy of all learning. To be sure is the enemy of wisdom.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know