Quotes About Wisdom

Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Our task as we grow older in a rapidly advancing science, is to retain the capacity of joy in discoveries which correct older ideas, and to learn from our pupils as we teach them.

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that treats of the knowledge of myself and instructs me in how to die well and live well.

And always, there was the magic of learning things.

It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.