Motivational Quotes

Learning

The years teach us much the days never knew.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Waitley, Denis

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Proverb, English

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

Confucius

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

10.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

Jensen, Eric

12.

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

13.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kraus, Karl

15.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

18.

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

Landau, Saul

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

21.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

22.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

25.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

28.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

King, Doug

40.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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