Chapter 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=61W3aGvTVgIC&q=%22Beware+of+the+man+who+works+hard+to+learn+something+learns+it+and+finds+himself+no+wiser+than+before%22&pg=PA281#v=onepage: Frank's Ant Farm
Cat's Cradle (1963)
“No man is the wiser for his learning.”
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
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John C. Maxwell
(1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Source: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading
“Here the heart
May give a useful lesson to the head,
And Learning wiser grow without his books.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 85.
“We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.”
John Pomfret
(1667–1702) English poet
Reason: A Poem, 1700.
“While it is wise to learn from experience, it is wiser to learn from the experiences of others.”
Rick Warren
(1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“The peasantry are wiser in their ignorance than the savants of St Petersburg in their learning.”
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Six, The Flight From Laputa, p. 128
