Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Learning

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bennis, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Landau, Saul

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

George Iles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carte, L.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

King, Doug

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

White, Patrick

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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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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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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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.

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

Wooden, John