Motivational Quotes

Learning

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Learning

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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

Jensen, Eric

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

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

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

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Hitopadesa

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

Trotsky, Leon

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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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

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Confucius

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken