Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Euripides

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

Twain, Mark

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

George Iles

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

Hitopadesa

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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, 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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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

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Young, Edward

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Proverb, English

23.

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

24.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

25.

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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

28.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

Ruskin, John

32.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Steinem, Gloria

37.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

38.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

39.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

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

43.

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

White, Patrick

44.

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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson