Quotes About Learning

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

My mother says looking is the nature of wisdom.

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

You are foolish, but without fools there would be no wisdom.

Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would be LIFE without them

What a man 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma. Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Knowledge itself is the highest reward of knowledge.

Study. What is meant by study in this case? No study of novels or story books, but study of those works which teach the liberation of the Soul.

Although devotion is to be given to many institutes and teachers, the essence is to be taken from them all, as the bee takes the essence from many flowers.- Samkhya, 4.13, an Eastern scripture

After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers, and that he learns as much from evil as from good.

What a mean 'learns' is really what he 'discovers,' by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise. Now

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life.

Even the faults of a Guru must be told.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma