Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Doris Lessing

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

Martina Horner

Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Kraus, Karl

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Seneca

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

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Euripides

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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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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rogers, Will

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

Twain, Mark

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

George Iles

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Churchill, Winston

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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar