Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Confucius

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Young

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Wooden, John

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

Virgil

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Martina Horner

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Proverb, English

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Doris Lessing

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Landau, Saul

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Seneca

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

Twain, Mark

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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