Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Landau, Saul

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

Kipling, Rudyard

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

George Iles

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

Confucius

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Dubos, Rene

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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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

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von