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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Landau, Saul

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

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

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

10.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

King, Doug

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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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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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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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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, English

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

33.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

35.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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

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The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

White, Patrick

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

Euripides

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