Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Young, Edward

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

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

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Ruskin, John

12.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

13.

Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

15.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

16.

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

17.

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

Landau, Saul

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

20.

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

21.

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

22.

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

27.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

28.

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

Hitopadesa

29.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

30.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

31.

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

Euripides

32.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

34.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

35.

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

Baker, Newton D.

36.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

37.

When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

38.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

40.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

41.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

42.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

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.

44.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

45.

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

Buzan, Tony

46.

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

47.

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

48.

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

49.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

50.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese