Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

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

Virgil

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

King, Doug

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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

Seneca

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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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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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Young, Edward

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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, 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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von