Quotes About Learning

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

Culture is coded wisdom

The questions are always more important than the answers.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Look at people in your life as "practice." The way you react to them allows you to see what you have to work on within yourself.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.

The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

. . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.