Motivational Quotes

Learning

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Wooden, John

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

White, Patrick

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

Twain, Mark

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Young

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, English

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

Buzan, Tony

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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