Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

Smith, Lillian

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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

11.

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

Hitopadesa

13.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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

Bennis, James

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

George Iles

17.

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

18.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

19.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

20.

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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

Confucius

30.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wooden, John

33.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

36.

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

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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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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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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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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Proverb, English

44.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis