Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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.

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

Landau, Saul

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Proverb, Latin

12.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

19.

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

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

21.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

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

Wooden, 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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Seneca

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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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.

Moyers, Bill

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Virgil

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Mckay, David O.

41.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

43.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ruskin, John

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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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar