Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

Buzan, Tony

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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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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 pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

White, Patrick

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

King, Doug

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Young, Edward

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 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

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

Doris Lessing

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Bennis, James

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Twain, Mark

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas