Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Learning

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Wooden, John

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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

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

Jensen, Eric

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Hall, Milton

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Albrecht, F.

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

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

Dubos, Rene

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Young

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Bennis, James

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

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

King, Doug

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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 not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

White, Patrick

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

Martina Horner

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Twain, Mark