Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Seneca

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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb, English

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Young

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

Carte, L.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Virgil

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

Confucius

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

White, Patrick

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

Smith, Lillian

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Trotsky, Leon