Motivational Quotes

Learning

All learning has an emotional base.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Euripides

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Albrecht, F.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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

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

Bennis, James

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

King, Doug

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

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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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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Virgil

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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 is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Waitley, Denis