Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Steinem, Gloria

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Buzan, Tony

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

10.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

11.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

12.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

13.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

14.

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

Jensen, Eric

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Waitley, Denis

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

23.

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 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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Young, Edward

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wooden, John

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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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