Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

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

Landau, Saul

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

White, Patrick

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Young, Edward

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

Hall, Milton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Young

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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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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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

Buzan, Tony

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill