Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Virgil

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Kraus, Karl

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

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

King, Doug

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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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 pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Twain, Mark

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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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We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Gates, Bill

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

White, Patrick

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Trotsky, Leon

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

George Iles

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

Young

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, English

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat