Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

1.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

2.

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

King, Doug

3.

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

White, Patrick

4.

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

Palmer, George Herbert

5.

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

6.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

7.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

9.

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

Trotsky, Leon

10.

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

Jensen, Eric

11.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

12.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

13.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

14.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

15.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

17.

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

Bennis, James

18.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

Landau, Saul

21.

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

Lessing, Doris

22.

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

Seneca

23.

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

Wooden, John

24.

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

25.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

26.

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

27.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

28.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

29.

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

Confucius

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

34.

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

Heinlein, Robert

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

36.

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

Proverb, English

37.

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

Proverb, Latin

38.

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

George Iles

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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

Young, Edward

42.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

43.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

44.

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

45.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

46.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

48.

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