Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Landau, Saul

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Young

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Virgil

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Albrecht, F.

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

George Iles

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Twain, Mark

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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

White, Patrick

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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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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese