Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Young

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

Heinlein, Robert

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Euripides

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Wooden, John

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

George Iles

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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