Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Palmer, George Herbert

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Landau, Saul

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Bible

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

Young, Edward

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

White, Patrick

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hitopadesa

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virgil

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Confucius

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

George Iles

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

Waitley, Denis