Motivational Quotes

Learning

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

- Carte, L.

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Doris Lessing

A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Proverb, English

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

George Iles

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

19.

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

Lessing, Doris

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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.

21.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Buzan, Tony

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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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.

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Van Buren, Abigail

32.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

33.

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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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

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

Euripides

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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