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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Rogers, Will

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Proverb, English

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mckay, David O.

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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

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

George Iles

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Euripides

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

White, Patrick