Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

Virgil

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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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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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Seneca

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buzan, Tony

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Twain, Mark

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

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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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 learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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.