Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Hitopadesa

Best Quotes about Learning

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

White, Patrick

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

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

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Landau, Saul

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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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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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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.

23.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Confucius

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

George Iles

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

Albrecht, F.

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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. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Buzan, Tony

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Ruskin, John