Wisdom Accumulation Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

With age comes wisdom.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

Education is a daily growth. It's not about the degrees but about the kind of person it makes one. I feel it makes a human being complete.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

If you are a creative person, then your mind gets sharper with age. My mind is very sharp, and I am happy for that.

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.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Every experience you can get adds to you; it really adds to the mental side of things, too.

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; books have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.