Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Confucius

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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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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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Euripides

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

Seneca

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

Doris Lessing

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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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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Young, Edward

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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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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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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Albrecht, F.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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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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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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Learning is a livelihood.

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