Motivational Quotes

Learning

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Smith, Lillian

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

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

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Hitopadesa

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Wooden, John

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Hall, Milton

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

Buzan, Tony

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Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

George Iles

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Young

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

King, Doug

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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Bible

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

Carte, L.

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

Seneca

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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