Motivational Quotes

Learning

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

- Falkland, Lucius C.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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.

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, English

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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

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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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Young

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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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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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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

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

Wooden, John

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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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There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.

Albrecht, F.

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

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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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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Jensen, Eric

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.