Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Learning

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hitopadesa

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

Bible

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Seneca

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Edward

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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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

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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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 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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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Bennis, James

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.