The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.
Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
