Motivational Quotes

Learning

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

- Palmer, George Herbert

Best Quotes about Learning

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Proverb, Latin

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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 the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Virgil

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

Bennis, James

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

Euripides

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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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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

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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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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Confucius

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

Seneca

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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 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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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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

Schweitzer, Albert