Motivational Quotes

Learning

Old foxes want no tutors.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Learning

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

George Iles

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

Young, Edward

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Patrick

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Baker, Newton D.

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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 things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Seneca

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Much learning does not teach understanding.