Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Carte, L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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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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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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Young, Edward

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Wooden, 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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Kraus, Karl

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson