Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Albrecht, F.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Carte, L.

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

Confucius

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hitopadesa

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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.

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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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Dubos, Rene

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Latin

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

White, Patrick

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hall, Milton

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Euripides

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

Seneca

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Proverb, English

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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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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