Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Ruskin, John

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kraus, Karl

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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

Baker, Newton D.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

King, Doug

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

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

George Iles

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

Jensen, Eric

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Albrecht, F.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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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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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Carte, L.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hall, Milton

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