Quotes About Learning

Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

Knowledge studies others, wisdom is self known.

Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.

Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught. You have the wisdom of your race. Be content.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

The beginning of all wisdom is recognition of facts.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

I only know that I know nothing

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.

Only ignorance excuses stupidity

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!