Quotes About Wisdom

We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

As long as you're learning you're not old.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.

Deep learning doesn't shine.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don't take things for granted.

We're all learning here; the best listeners will end up the smartest.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

You have but to hold forth in cap and gown, and any gibberish becomes learning, all nonsense passes for sense.

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.