Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Landau, Saul

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Confucius

A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

Waitley, Denis

16.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

17.

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

King, Doug

18.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

19.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

20.

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

Trotsky, Leon

21.

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

Baker, Newton D.

24.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

26.

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

Dubos, Rene

27.

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Young, Edward

31.

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

32.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

33.

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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

35.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

36.

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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

39.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

40.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

41.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

42.

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

Carte, L.

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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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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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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

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis