Motivational Quotes

Learning

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Bible

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

Doris Lessing

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

Euripides

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

White, Patrick

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

Young

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baker, Newton D.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wooden, John

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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

Virgil

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Confucius

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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