Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Gregory The Great, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

Martina Horner

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

Virgil

11.

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

Young, Edward

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

King, Doug

20.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

21.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

22.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, English

24.

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Albrecht, F.

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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 a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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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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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu