Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Van Buren, Abigail

Best Quotes about Learning

1.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

2.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

3.

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

Einstein, Albert

4.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

5.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

6.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

7.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

8.

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

9.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

10.

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

Dubos, Rene

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

Confucius

14.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

22.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

25.

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

Hitopadesa

26.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

27.

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

28.

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

Smith, Lillian

29.

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

Proverb, Latin

30.

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Hall, Milton

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

35.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Lessing, Doris

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

39.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

41.

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

Doris Lessing

42.

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.

43.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

Carte, L.

46.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan