Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Learning

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Hitopadesa

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.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

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

George Iles

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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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

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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 man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

Young

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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kraus, Karl

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

King, Doug