Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Proverb, English

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Bible

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

10.

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

11.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Smith, Lillian

14.

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

George Iles

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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

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

King, Doug

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Bennis, James

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

27.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Rogers, Will

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Buzan, Tony

33.

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

Young

35.

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Confucius

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.