Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Seneca

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, English

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wooden, John

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Young, Edward

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

King, Doug

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

Hitopadesa

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

Waitley, Denis

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Euripides

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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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