Motivational Quotes

Learning

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baker, Newton D.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Kraus, Karl

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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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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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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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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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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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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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Wooden, John

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carte, L.

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

King, Doug

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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

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

Virgil

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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