Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Doris Lessing

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Einstein, Albert

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

10.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

13.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

14.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

15.

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

Bennis, James

16.

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

Seneca

17.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

Proverb, English

20.

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

21.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

22.

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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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

25.

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

26.

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

Young, Edward

27.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

28.

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

Young

29.

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

30.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Lillian

33.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

34.

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

35.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Heinlein, Robert

39.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

40.

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

41.

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

Albrecht, F.

42.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

44.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Lessing, Doris

47.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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

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

Euripides

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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.