Motivational Quotes

Learning

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Doris Lessing

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Waitley, Denis

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, English

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

White, Patrick

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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

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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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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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

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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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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Seneca

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

King, Doug

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

Confucius

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

George Iles

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von