Motivational Quotes

Learning

There is no time of life past learning something.

- Ambrose, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Mckay, David O.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Proverb, English

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

Euripides

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

Virgil

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

Young

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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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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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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 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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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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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 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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Churchill, Winston

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Buzan, Tony

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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