Motivational Quotes

Learning

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Seneca

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

Young, Edward

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

Hitopadesa

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Landau, Saul

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Bennis, James

10.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Kraus, Karl

12.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

13.

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

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

15.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, English

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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.

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

Trotsky, Leon

24.

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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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

White, Patrick

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

28.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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

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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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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Waitley, Denis

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Smith, Lillian

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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Dubos, Rene

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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill