Motivational Quotes

Learning

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Learning

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Bible

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

14.

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

Dubos, Rene

15.

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

18.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

19.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

20.

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

Baker, Newton D.

21.

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

Euripides

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

25.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carte, L.

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

30.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hall, Milton

32.

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

33.

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Schweitzer, Albert

37.

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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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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