Motivational Quotes

Learning

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

- Proverb, Gaelic

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Confucius

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

Young

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

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

Smith, Lillian

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

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

Baker, Newton D.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

13.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

George Iles

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

27.

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

Proverb, Latin

28.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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.

30.

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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Proverb, English

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

Young, Edward

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.