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

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

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

Virgil

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

Euripides

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

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Trotsky, Leon

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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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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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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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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.

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hitopadesa

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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