Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Hitopadesa

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Baker, Newton D.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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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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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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Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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 does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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.

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

White, Patrick

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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