Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Carte, L.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

White, Patrick

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

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

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

Landau, Saul

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bible

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

Seneca

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

Virgil

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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 is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Carte, L.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Twain, Mark

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Young, Edward

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles