Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Heinlein, Robert

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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.

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

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

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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 let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

White, Patrick

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Latin

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Bennis, James

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

Waitley, Denis

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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