Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Seneca

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

Young, Edward

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

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

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

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.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

13.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

18.

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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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

20.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

24.

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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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

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hitopadesa

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Buzan, Tony

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Virgil

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

Ruskin, John

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Young

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 by teaching.

Proverb

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Euripides

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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