Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Einstein, Albert

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

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

Martina Horner

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.

10.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Hall, Milton

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

George Iles

13.

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Seneca

17.

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

Bennis, James

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

Young

19.

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

King, Doug

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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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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

Young, Edward

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

29.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

31.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Virgil

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

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

40.

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.

41.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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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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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

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

White, Patrick