Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Steinem, Gloria

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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

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

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

White, Patrick

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

Young, Edward

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Ruskin, John

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buzan, Tony

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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Virgil

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

Bennis, James

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Proverb, English

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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.

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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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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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 can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hitopadesa

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

Mckay, David O.

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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese