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Quotes About Wisdom

Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.
~ Umar
There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
~ Michael J. Fox
Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.
~ P. T. Barnum
Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?
~ John Towner Williams
I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
~ Richie Ashburn
...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
~ Norton Juster
You can look in a book of wrong and learn more right. If you're reading a book that has all wrong in it , you're learning what not to do.
~ Rakim
It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.
~ Richard Rohr
Learning is as much an art as teaching
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
It's all a learning process. You've got to learn from experience, the battles you go through. Some guys continue to grow. Hopefully, that's what I'll continue do.
~ Paul Pierce
And still I am learning.
~ Michelangelo
One should practice much sense, not much learning.
~ Democritus
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
~ Ninette de Valois
If you want to earn more - learn more.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Learn to obey before you command.
~ Solon
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.
~ Charles Kettering
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
~ J. C. Ryle
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
~ Lady Gregory
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance
~ Karl Popper
I am still learning. (at age 87)
~ Michelangelo
Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.
~ Percival Lowell
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.
~ Wendy Kaminer