“Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.”

“They who study mathematiks only to fix their minds, and render them the steadyer to apply to all other things, as there are many who profess to do, are as wise as those who think by rowing boats, to learn to swim.”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“And many of the people who buy or found banks have had no experience in banking at all. If they can learn it, so can we.”

“From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”

“Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.”

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

“There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.”

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

“Job learned the wisdom of silence before God, but it appears many Christians have abandoned this value in our wordy world.”