Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Malcolm Gladwell

Best Quotes about Learning

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Martina Horner

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

King, Doug

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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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

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

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Euripides

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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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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Waitley, Denis

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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 time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas