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

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bennis, James

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Young, Edward

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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

Euripides

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Young

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

Ruskin, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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

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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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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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Hemingway, Ernest

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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