Motivational Quotes

Learning

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

- Falkland, Lucius C.

Best Quotes about Learning

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Lessing, Doris

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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.

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

Wooden, John

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

Young

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

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bennis, James

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Young, Edward

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Euripides

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

Hall, Milton

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Albrecht, F.

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Virgil

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

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

Seneca

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

43.

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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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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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

47.

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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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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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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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene