Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Learning

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

White, Patrick

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

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

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dubos, Rene

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Confucius

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Virgil

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Wooden, John

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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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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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