Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Young

Best Quotes about Learning

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hitopadesa

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

Seneca

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Doris Lessing

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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.

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

George Iles

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King, Doug

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Euripides

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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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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Confucius

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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 become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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

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

Young

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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

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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

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

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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott