Motivational Quotes

Learning

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.

Best Quotes about Learning

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Confucius

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

Young, Edward

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

14.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

15.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wooden, John

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bennis, James

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

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Rogers, Will

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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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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Gelb, Michael J.

41.

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

Ruskin, John

42.

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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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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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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

Waitley, Denis

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Albrecht, F.