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

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

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

Buzan, Tony

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Euripides

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

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

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

King, Doug

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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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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Latin

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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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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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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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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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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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

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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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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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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

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

Proverb, English

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

Jensen, Eric

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