Quotes About Learning

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

If I were younger, I'd know more.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Curiosity is a quest for wisdom on untamed grounds.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

Ours is an age that's often obsessed with knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

There's simply no philosophizing without a love of wisdom, absolutely.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Man is born dead and he remains dead till he attains wisdom! Wisdom is the only resurrection man can obtain!

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.

I deposit in many banks including the bank of wisdom. The more I draw on my accounts, no matter how big the sum, the bigger my balance becomes

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.