Motivational Quotes

Learning

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

- Adler, Mortimer J.

Best Quotes about Learning

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Dubos, Rene

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

White, Patrick

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Proverb, English

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

Bible

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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 do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Carte, L.

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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 not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hitopadesa

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Confucius

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

Albrecht, F.

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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill