Quotes about Wisdom
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.
- Samuel Johnson
All I have learned, I learned from books.
- Abraham Lincoln
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- William Hazlitt
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.
- Samuel Johnson
Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline.
- St. Augustine
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.
- Elie Wiesel
There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.
- Robin Sharma
Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
- Mark Twain
We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
- GK Chesterton
When we stop learning in our relationship, whether we are studying, playing or whatever we are doing, and merely act from the knowledge we have accumulated, then disorder comes.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln