Motivational Quotes

Learning

Much learning does not teach understanding.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

George Iles

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

Hitopadesa

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Dubos, Rene

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Confucius

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

Euripides

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Jensen, Eric

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

White, Patrick

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Wooden, John

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

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa