Motivational Quotes

Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Wooden, John

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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

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

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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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

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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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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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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

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

Proverb, English

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

Kraus, Karl

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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 is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

32.

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

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

Hitopadesa

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Confucius

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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