Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Euripides

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

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

Albrecht, F.

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

George Iles

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

25.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

27.

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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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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

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

Hitopadesa

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Ruskin, John

43.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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