Motivational Quotes

Learning

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

- Keyes Jr., Ken

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Young

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

King, Doug

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

Euripides

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Waitley, Denis

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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill

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

Bennis, James

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

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

George Iles

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Confucius

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Hitopadesa

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Doris Lessing

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