Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Seneca

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King, Doug

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Young

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Hitopadesa

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carte, L.