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

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Young, Edward

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

Carte, L.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dubos, Rene

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Ruskin, John

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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 is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Virgil

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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.

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Proverb, Latin

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

George Iles

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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

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

Young

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

King, Doug

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

White, Patrick

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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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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

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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 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