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, 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

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

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Buzan, Tony

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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 other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

King, Doug

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Virgil

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You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

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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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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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hall, Milton

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

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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