Quotes About Learning

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn't lead to wisdom? And what's wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?

Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

By suffering comes wisdom.

No one has a monopoly on wisdom, and even for people who aren't religious, you can learn things from religious people.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.