Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

- Malcolm Gladwell

Best Quotes about Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

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

Young, Edward

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

George Iles

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

11.

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.

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

Rogers, Will

16.

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

Virgil

17.

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

Twain, Mark

18.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

19.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

23.

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

24.

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

Seneca

25.

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

26.

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

27.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

28.

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

Young

29.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

30.

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

31.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

36.

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

37.

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

Wooden, John

38.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

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

Proverb, Latin

40.

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

Hitopadesa

41.

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

Mckay, David O.

42.

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

43.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

44.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Proverb, English

47.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Waitley, Denis