Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Buzan, Tony

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Hemingway, Ernest

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

Seneca

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

White, Patrick

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Baker, Newton D.

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Euripides

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

Hall, Milton

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Bennis, James

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, English

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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.