Motivational Quotes

Learning

There is no time of life past learning something.

- Ambrose, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Palmer, George Herbert

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bennis, James

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Twain, Mark

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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Steinem, Gloria

32.

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

Hall, Milton

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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 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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi