Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Mckay, David O.

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

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Ruskin, John

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Seneca

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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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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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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Young, Edward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose