Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Euripides

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

Young, Edward

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

White, Patrick

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Young

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

Smith, Lillian

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

King, Doug

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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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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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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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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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.