Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Hitopadesa

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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.

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

Malcolm Gladwell

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

George Iles

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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Virgil

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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 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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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

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

Young

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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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