Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

- Deming, W. Edwards

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

King, Doug

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

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

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Seneca

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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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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 is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Young, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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 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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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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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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I grow old learning something new every day.