Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Malcolm Gladwell

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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 not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

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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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When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

King, Doug

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

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rogers, Will

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

Baker, Newton D.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Twain, Mark

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Seneca

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Bennis, James

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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.