Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Learning

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Malcolm Gladwell

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Young

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Hitopadesa

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Latin

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kraus, Karl

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.