Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Seneca

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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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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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Euripides

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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.

29.

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

Hitopadesa

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, Lillian

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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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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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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

White, Patrick

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

Wooden, John

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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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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson