Quotes About Learning

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

What is not worth understanding is not knowing.

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Winning provides happiness. Losing provides wisdom.

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

Wisdom is a dreadful thing when it brings no knowledge to its possessor.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

No person's gain in wisdom is diminished by anyone else's gain.

Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed.