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Quotes About Wisdom

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
~ Richard Baxter
If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
~ Aldous Huxley
The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.
~ Thomas Merton
It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.
~ Demetri Martin
The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
~ E. W. Howe
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
~ Dallas Willard
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
~ Laozi
If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
~ Gautama Buddha
You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.
~ Confucius
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.
~ Chanakya
It doesn't hurt to get more education.
~ Donald J. Trump
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
I'm always learning something. Learning never ends.
~ Raymond Carver, Cathedral
The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how
~ Joel Plaskett
The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?
~ Confucius
When you're through learning, you're through.
~ Will Rogers
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.
~ Richard Wollheim
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~ Aeschylus
I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
~ John Elkann
Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned. [Lat., Delle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima.]
~ Jacopo Sannazaro