Quotes About Wisdom

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

A lot of the stuff that my father told me not to do, I did it anyway and I ended up learning the hard way.

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.

The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Here's the thing - if you stop learning, you might as well pack it in. You can't learn anything with your mouth open.

the moment you stop learning, you stop leading.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I was, am and always will be a student…, the day I stop learning, is the day I die.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.

Men learn while they teach.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Learning isn't a luxury; it's a stewardship issue