Motivational Quotes

Learning

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

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

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

King, Doug

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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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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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

Mckay, David O.

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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

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Bennis, James

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Young, Edward