Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Landau, Saul

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

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

Bible

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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

Palmer, George Herbert

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

11.

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

King, Doug

12.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

16.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

17.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Virgil

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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

Young

27.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Young, Edward

34.

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

Hall, Milton

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

40.

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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.

42.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Buzan, Tony

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.