Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Learning

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

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Kraus, Karl

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

George Iles

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

Buzan, Tony

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hitopadesa

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

Wooden, John

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

Bennis, James

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

Ruskin, John

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.