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

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

Hall, Milton

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Young

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.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Young, Edward

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

King, Doug

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

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Proverb, English

12.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

13.

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

Rogers, Will

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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.

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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 things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

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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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

31.

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

Ruskin, John

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

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Dubos, Rene

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

George Iles

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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