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

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

Seneca

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

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

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Martina Horner

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

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

Young

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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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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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Carte, L.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Jensen, Eric

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

King, Doug

30.

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

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

39.

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

Hall, Milton

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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 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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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will