Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Hitopadesa

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Twain, Mark

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Young, Edward

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

Seneca

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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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 without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Virgil

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Bible

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.