Motivational Quotes

Learning

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

- Adler, Mortimer J.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Bible

There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Twain, Mark

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ruskin, John

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Hitopadesa

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

Euripides

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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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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

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

King, Doug

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

Seneca

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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

Wooden, John

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson