Motivational Quotes

Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Learning

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Euripides

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Young

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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

12.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

14.

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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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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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 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 pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

21.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

32.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Iles

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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.