Motivational Quotes

Learning

Old foxes want no tutors.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Ruskin, John

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Carte, L.

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young

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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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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 learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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