Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

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

Mckay, David O.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Hitopadesa

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

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

White, Patrick

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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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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Virgil

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

Doris Lessing

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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