Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn by teaching.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Trotsky, Leon

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Albrecht, F.

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

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

Buzan, Tony

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Hitopadesa

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young, Edward

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Landau, Saul

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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 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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Seneca

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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 not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.