Motivational Quotes

Learning

There is no time of life past learning something.

- Ambrose, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dubos, Rene

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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

Virgil

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

19.

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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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

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

Confucius

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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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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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, English

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Euripides

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old foxes want no tutors.