Motivational Quotes

Learning

I grow old learning something new every day.

- Solon

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

11.

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

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

White, Patrick

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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

Virgil

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

Seneca

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bennis, James

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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill

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

Mckay, David O.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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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 let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Waitley, Denis

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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