Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Young

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

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

Smith, Lillian

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bennis, James

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

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

10.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

18.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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

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

21.

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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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Carte, L.

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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.

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

Young, Edward

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

Wooden, John

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Mckay, David O.

35.

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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Doris Lessing

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

41.

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.

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

George Iles

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Euripides

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.