Oscar Wilde Quotes

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Always educate yourself.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.