Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- George Iles

Best Quotes about Learning

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Proverb, Latin

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.

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

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

White, Patrick

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Carte, L.

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo