Motivational Quotes

Learning

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

- Peck, M. Scott

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Proverb, English

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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.

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Patrick

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Virgil

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Seneca

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

Mckay, David O.

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

Euripides

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

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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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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

King, Doug

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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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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Old foxes want no tutors.