Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Learning

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Hall, Milton

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

11.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Heinlein, Robert

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Steinem, Gloria

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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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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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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