Motivational Quotes

Learning

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Confucius

Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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

Twain, Mark

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Hitopadesa

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

Bennis, James

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

Young, Edward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

King, Doug

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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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

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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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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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