Quotes About Wisdom

All I have learned, I learned from books.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

Thought, unassisted by learning, is dangerous.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Learned researches lead to headaches, constipation, and befuddled quarreling.

Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.

Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.

There is never such a thing as learning too much. We can always delve deeper, and in fact we should!

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.