Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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 aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

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 not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Virgil

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Hitopadesa

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

George Iles

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

22.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Confucius

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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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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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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Jensen, Eric

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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