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

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Churchill, Winston

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Proverb, Latin

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Confucius

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

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

White, Patrick

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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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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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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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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

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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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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kraus, Karl

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Waitley, Denis

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Virgil

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

George Iles

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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You can't learn less.