Motivational Quotes

Learning

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Learning

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Franklin, Benjamin

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

10.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

11.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

12.

This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Waitley, Denis

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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

16.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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.

Ford, Henry

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Doherty, Henry L.

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

30.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

31.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Hemingway, Ernest

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All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Waitley, Denis

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord