Top 100 Quotes About Learning Wisdom
#2. The constant desire to win is a very American kind of trouble. Less glamorous gains made along the way--learning, wisdom, growth, and confidence, dealing with failure--aren't given the same respect because they can't be given a grade.
William Zinsser
#3. The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.
Kahlil Gibran
#4. Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
J.C. Ryle
#5. For time is short and the unknown surrounds us; and it isn't enough just to live unthinking and happy, calmly bearing oppression and only learning wisdom with age.
Bertolt Brecht
#6. Children's and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that's why so many adults read YA: we're never done coming of age.
Betsy Cornwell
#8. For every choice you make, there is a consequence to face. Choose wisely!
Kemi Sogunle
#9. The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity.
Criss Jami
#10. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#11. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
#12. Do question, even the basics!
You will be a fool for once!
If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..
Himmilicious
#13. Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.
Solon
#14. Young hearts too often have tunnel vision.
K.J. Farnham
#15. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon
#16. Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
Raheel Farooq
#17. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
#18. That is the problem with age and wisdom - it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
Bill Bonner
#19. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#20. All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner.
Idries Shah
#21. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Bryant McGill
#23. A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning.
Mollie Marti
#24. The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.
Marianne Williamson
#25. Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
Joan Erikson
#26. Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
Idries Shah
#27. Learning to pray is learning to trust the wisdom, the power, and the love of our Heavenly Father, always so far beyond our dreams.
Elisabeth Elliot
#28. With careful guidance and mentorship, you will reach your highest-self.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#30. It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others
to shake them out of their rut.
Jostein Gaarder
#31. Ask broad questions and you'll get more than one answer. Ask specific questions and you'll get no answer.
S.D. Lawendowski
#32. Learning means bringing forth the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual knowledge, skills and values, that are already within us.
Our learning starts as soon as we are born.
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#33. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#34. Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain ... your thoughts ... your ideas ... engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom.
Wes Adamson
#35. Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning ... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.
Chidi Okonkwo
#36. Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
#37. Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears
Eleanor Brownn
#38. Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.
Chanakya
#39. Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.
Alaric Hutchinson
#40. It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#41. There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life ... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#42. You have to learn how to take care of yourself. Who you need, is you. It was always about and for you.
Bryant McGill
#43. People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.
Criss Jami
#44. We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.
Gary Paul Nabhan
#45. There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#47. There is always a story behind what you like. Like what you like and be happy with what you like but don't ever forget to mind the real lessons from the story behind what you like.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
#49. Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
Martin Luther
#51. Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.
T.F. Hodge
#52. Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.
Dan Millman
#53. Come on people! Somebody disagree with me! How can we learn anything if no one will disagree?" Rabbi Stern
Athol Dickson
#54. A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
Chanakya
#55. Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me.
Richie Norton
#56. You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to do, and you do know what that means.
Idries Shah
#57. The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.
Idries Shah
#58. Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.
Alain De Botton
#59. Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them ... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#60. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.
Criss Jami
#62. You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
Richard Baxter
#63. To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.
Confucius
#64. I had a passion and love of learning and wisdom that was inseparable from a love of music and the arts. I've never viewed them in any way as being separable.
Cornel West
#65. Learning is the chief goal to those who aim high in life.
Euginia Herlihy
#66. The greatest education is learning to know the divinity of thy soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#67. The teaching must, of course, work with the best part of the individual, must be directed to his or her real capacity.
Idries Shah
#68. We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. Wisdom keeps the world functioning. Get learning. Get wisdom.
Anonymous
#70. The ultimate aim of learning knowledge is to gain wisdom.
Pearl Zhu
#71. Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
#73. We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.
Maya Angelou
#74. Life's lessons aren't always new. Often they're the same old worn-out truths offering us greater depths of wisdom and understanding.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#76. Polluted who hears not voice of learning, gives no charity,
Who sees not pure devotee and walks not to places holy;
Who fills with things by crooked practices unhesitatingly,
And who ever holds his head high in arrogance and vanity.
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Munindra Misra
#77. Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
Plato
#78. Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.
Idries Shah
#80. Imagine learning all the great wisdom of the world just so that you can get a job. What an absurdity. We should be learning all the great wisdom of the world in order to become wise.
Eddie Campbell
#81. In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?
David Perkins
#82. Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.
Confucius
#83. Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.
Pearl Zhu
#84. It is not just saying prayers that gets results, but it is spending time with the Father, learning His wisdom, drawing on His strength, being filled with His quietness, and basking in His love that bring results to our prayers. Praise the Lord!
Germaine Copeland
#85. What good would learning be if we concentrated on what we already knew? It is only by learning those things that come to us with difficulty that we truly gain wisdom.
Kate Klimo
#86. I embrace my shadow self. Shadows give depth and dimension to my life. I believe in embracing my duality, in learning to let darkness and light, peacefully co-exist, as illumination.
Jaeda DeWalt
#87. It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
#88. He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#89. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
#90. The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera Nazarian
#91. Acquiring of wisdom is a function of inquisitiveness for information and keenness for learning. Plenty of resource and the gravity of flow will ensure a momentum good enough for learning.
Priyavrat Thareja
#92. The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Aristotle.
#93. Horizontal expansion loses the depth, though excessive depth that only provokes darkness is futile. Therefore a balance between depth and vastness is essential in learning
Priyavrat Thareja
#94. Never stop learning, when you stop learning, life stops.
Debasish Mridha
#95. Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
#96. You see, unlearning is a very important process towards becoming enlightened, because in this life you will have learned wrong ways and those wrong ways that you have learned are barriers blocking you from becoming who you really are, therefore it is vital that they are unlearned.
Andrew James Pritchard
#97. Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.
Benny Bellamacina
#98. Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument - that, friends, is real wisdom.
Saul Bellow
#99. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.
Israelmore Ayivor
#100. WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.
Richard Templar
