Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Carte, L.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

King, Doug

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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

Virgil

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jensen, Eric

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buzan, Tony

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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