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Quotes About Wisdom

Too many people get caught up in the idea that they are experts in their field and forget to keep growing and learning.
~ Kit Williamson
Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.
~ S.M. Stirling
It is through suffering that learning comes.
~ Aeschylus
When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
~ John Wilkins
To endeavor all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armor that one has nothing left to defend.
~ Robert Dodsley
Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
~ Andre Holland
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
~ Sydney Smith
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.
~ Elie Wiesel
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
To the makying of bookes of gardenyng there is noe ende.
~ Thomas Hill
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
~ Alan Watts
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
~ Henry David Thoreau
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
~ Voltaire, Candide
At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.
~ John Godfrey Saxe
He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.
~ Michael Morpurgo, Farm Boy
Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.
~ Jesse Ventura
The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.
~ Ovid, Metamorphoses
I hope I'm always learning something.
~ Kate Winslet
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
~ Scott Weiss
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
~ Roger Ascham
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
~ George Herbert Palmer
The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.
~ Franz Grillparzer