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

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

George Iles

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kraus, Karl

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

Doris Lessing

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

White, Patrick

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Jensen, Eric

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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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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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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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat