Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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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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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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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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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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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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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wooden, John

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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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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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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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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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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 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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim