Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

- Deming, W. Edwards

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Confucius

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

White, Patrick

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

Bennis, James

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.

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.

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

Seneca

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

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Waitley, Denis

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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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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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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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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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

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

Virgil

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Young

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Rogers, Will

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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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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, English

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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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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.