Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Learning

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

King, Doug

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

Euripides

Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Young

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Ruskin, John

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Waitley, Denis

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

White, Patrick

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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

Confucius

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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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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

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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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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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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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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.