Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Young

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

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

Bible

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

George Iles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Latin

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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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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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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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Confucius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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