Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Learning

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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

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

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Virgil

10.

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

12.

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

13.

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

14.

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

Hitopadesa

15.

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

16.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

Steinem, Gloria

18.

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

19.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

20.

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

21.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

22.

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

Ruskin, John

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

26.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Confucius

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

31.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

George Iles

36.

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

37.

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

Wooden, John

38.

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

Martina Horner

39.

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

40.

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

41.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

42.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Landau, Saul

49.

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

Rogers, Will

50.

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