Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

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

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

Euripides

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Rogers, Will

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

Young

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

Bennis, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

George Iles

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

Trotsky, Leon