Quotes About Learning

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young are too immature to understand.

I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.

Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

Little pitchers have big ears.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

Wisdom comes only with innocence.

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.

Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.

Intellect is not wisdom one must understand. They're two things - wisdom and intellect.

If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.