Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Lillian

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Confucius

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.

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

Wooden, John

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

Hazlitt, William

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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

Jensen, Eric

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Waitley, Denis

25.

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

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Kraus, Karl

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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

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

Twain, Mark

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Young, Edward

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

Young

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Carte, L.

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

White, Patrick

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ruskin, John

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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