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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

King, Doug

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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

Steinem, Gloria

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

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

Young

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hall, Milton

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Carte, L.

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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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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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