Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

White, Patrick

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Waitley, Denis

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Euripides

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bennis, James

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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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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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

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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.