Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Learning

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Confucius

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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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 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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dubos, Rene

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Euripides

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

George Iles

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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.