Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Seneca

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

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.

Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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

Baker, Newton D.

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.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Doris Lessing

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Carte, L.

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Young, Edward

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

King, Doug

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

Hitopadesa

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Euripides