Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Seneca

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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

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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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 geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Euripides

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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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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Young

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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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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

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

White, Patrick

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

Hitopadesa

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, English

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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.