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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Wooden, John

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

Smith, Lillian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

White, Patrick

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

King, Doug

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

Confucius

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Euripides

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Landau, Saul

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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 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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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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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Seneca

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Twain, Mark

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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