Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

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Best Quotes about Learning

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Waitley, Denis

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heinlein, Robert

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Young, Edward

11.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

Bennis, James

14.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

18.

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

19.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

20.

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

21.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

22.

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

Rogers, Will

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Young

29.

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

30.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

31.

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

White, Patrick

32.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

George Iles

36.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

37.

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

Hitopadesa

38.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

45.

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

Euripides

46.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

47.

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

Wooden, John

48.

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.