Motivational Quotes

Learning

The things which hurt, instruct.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

King, Doug

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

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Carte, L.

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

Bible

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

Jensen, Eric

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

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hitopadesa

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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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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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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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 grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Young

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

Proverb, English

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Kraus, Karl