Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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Haydon, Benjamin

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

Doris Lessing

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Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Wooden, John

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

White, Patrick

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

Euripides

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

King, Doug

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

Proverb, English

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Young

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

Bennis, James

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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