Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, 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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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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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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

George Iles

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Bennis, James

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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Virgil

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Baker, Newton D.

33.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Proverb, English

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

Young, Edward

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

42.

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

Proverb, Latin

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

King, Doug

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Much learning does not teach understanding.