Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Hall, Milton

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Young

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Hall, Milton

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

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

Baker, Newton D.

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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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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 more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bennis, James

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

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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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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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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

George Iles

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Confucius

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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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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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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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Twain, Mark

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Wooden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learning is a livelihood.

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