Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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

Bible

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

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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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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

Seneca

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

Virgil

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

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

Hitopadesa

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Albrecht, F.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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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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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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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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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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

King, Doug

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