Quotes About Wisdom

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

If you are not learning, you are not living.

The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

You learn from your mistakes.

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

I really believe that you never stop learning.

With every episode of struggle, there is a learning opportunity.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

When we look at external things, we can usually distinguish those that are useful and valuable from those that are not. We must learn to look at our mind in the same way.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.