Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Learning

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

George Iles

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

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

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Albrecht, F.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Bennis, James

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

Kraus, Karl

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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

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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Buzan, Tony

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Virgil

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Ruskin, John

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

Euripides

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

Dubos, Rene

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

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

Young, Edward

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

Wooden, John

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

Carte, L.