Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- George Iles

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Twain, Mark

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Virgil

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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

White, Patrick

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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 is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Hitopadesa

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

King, Doug

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Ruskin, John

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Bennis, James

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The years teach us much the days never knew.