Quotes About Learning

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment

Wisdom is partly innate and partly developed and practised. It's about a lot more than just knowledge: experience, involvement, communication, interaction with people. Wisdom is a way of being.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

The smartest person in the room is never as smart as all the people in the room.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.