Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

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

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

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Hitopadesa

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Virgil

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Young, Edward

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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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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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Wooden, John

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

White, Patrick

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan