Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Dubos, Rene

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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

Proverb, English

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

Young

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ruskin, John

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

White, Patrick

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

George Iles

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

Waitley, Denis

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Hitopadesa

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

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Virgil

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