Motivational Quotes

Learning

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Latin

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Carte, L.

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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

George Iles

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

Young

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Young, Edward

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

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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Waitley, Denis

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

White, Patrick

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

Kraus, Karl

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

King, Doug

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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