Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Alcott, Amos Bronson

Best Quotes about Learning

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, English

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

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Landau, Saul

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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 finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

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

White, Patrick

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

George Iles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Young

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Twain, Mark

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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 can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Mckay, David O.