Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn by teaching.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Learning

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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

11.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

12.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Virgil

17.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

20.

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

Confucius

21.

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

Baker, Newton D.

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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

24.

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

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The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

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

30.

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

Kraus, Karl

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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

33.

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

34.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Gregory The Great, St.

39.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

40.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hitopadesa

49.

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo