Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Young

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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

Landau, Saul

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, Latin

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

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Bennis, James

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

Hitopadesa

14.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Carte, L.

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

Euripides

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

George Iles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

29.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Confucius

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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