Motivational Quotes

Learning

If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

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Best Quotes about Learning

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Hall, Milton

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

George Iles

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

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

Seneca

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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

White, Patrick

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

Twain, Mark

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Jensen, Eric

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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

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.