Motivational Quotes

Learning

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

- Burns, George

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

10.

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

Young, Edward

11.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

12.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

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

Buzan, Tony

16.

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

17.

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

18.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

19.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

20.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

21.

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

22.

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

Trotsky, Leon

23.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

25.

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

26.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

27.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

29.

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

Hitopadesa

30.

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

31.

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

Steinem, Gloria

32.

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

Heinlein, Robert

33.

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

Proverb, English

34.

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

Proverb, Latin

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

37.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

38.

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

Seneca

39.

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

40.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

41.

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

Jensen, Eric

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

46.

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

47.

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

Albrecht, F.

48.

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

Churchill, Winston

49.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

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.