Motivational Quotes

Learning

Old foxes want no tutors.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Learning

That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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

Steinem, Gloria

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Martina Horner

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

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

Young

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Virgil

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

Bible

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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