Quotes About Learning

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity

Every choice eventually leads to wisdom.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom.