Motivational Quotes

Learning

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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

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

Proverb, English

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

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

Bennis, James

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

King, Doug

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Bible

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Latin

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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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

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

Wooden, John

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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