Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

13.

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

Dubos, Rene

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

18.

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

Young

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

Trotsky, Leon

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The things which hurt, instruct.

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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He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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

Euripides

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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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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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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Virgil

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

Young, Edward

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

Baker, Newton D.