Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Virgil

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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 pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

King, Doug

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young

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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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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

Ruskin, John

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Albrecht, F.

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Young, Edward

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

Kraus, Karl

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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.