Motivational Quotes

Learning

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Landau, Saul

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Young

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

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

Seneca

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

Young, Edward

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Doherty, Henry L.

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

Wooden, John

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

White, Patrick

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

Bennis, James

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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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