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

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Martina Horner

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Euripides

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

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

Bennis, James

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

12.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

14.

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

Jensen, Eric

15.

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

16.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

17.

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

Proverb, Latin

18.

There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

23.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

27.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

28.

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

29.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Young, Edward

34.

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

Landau, Saul

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

36.

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

Confucius

37.

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

George Iles

38.

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

39.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

40.

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

41.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

42.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

43.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

44.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

45.

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

Palmer, George Herbert

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

Trotsky, Leon

49.

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

Carte, L.

50.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.