Quotes About Learning

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

The bad one is that way because of the ignorance, therefore he can be healed with wisdom.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

Just as the athlete has his coach, the Hindu his yogi, and the student his mentor, there are many of us who find wisdom in dogs. Because of their teachings, we are better people.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

Time is one's best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.