Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Learning

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Young

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

Buzan, Tony

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Hall, Milton

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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Twain, Mark

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Virgil

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

Confucius

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Edward

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Rogers, Will

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kraus, Karl

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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Dubos, Rene

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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