Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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

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

Seneca

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Jensen, Eric

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Euripides

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

Hitopadesa

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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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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