Motivational Quotes

Learning

The things which hurt, instruct.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Gregory The Great, St.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

12.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

White, Patrick

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Young, Edward

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Euripides

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Albrecht, F.

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Confucius

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

Young

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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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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 grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Trotsky, Leon

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Kraus, Karl

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Jensen, Eric