Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Doris Lessing

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bennis, James

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

Young

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

White, Patrick

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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Confucius

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Dubos, Rene

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Virgil

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

George Iles

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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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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

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

Young, Edward

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

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von