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

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

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Ford, Henry

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Wooden, John

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Twain, Mark

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

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, English

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Confucius

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Euripides

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

Buzan, Tony

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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

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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