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

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

Martina Horner

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hitopadesa

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heinlein, Robert

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Young

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

Seneca

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

Virgil

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Proverb, English

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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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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