Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Best Quotes about Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Smith, Lillian

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

Confucius

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

Landau, Saul

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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.

Moyers, Bill

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

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

Bennis, James

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

22.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

30.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

King, Doug

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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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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 more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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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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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Euripides

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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.

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

Proverb, English

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George