Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Young

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

Proverb, Latin

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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

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Twain, Mark

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

Young, Edward

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

Disraeli, Benjamin