Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Hall, Milton

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

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

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

Bennis, James

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

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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

Young

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Young, Edward

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

Steinem, Gloria

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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