Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Gregory The Great, St.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Carte, L.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Young

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

Wooden, John

14.

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.

15.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

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

19.

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Confucius

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

Dubos, Rene

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I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Young, Edward

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Landau, Saul

33.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

44.

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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bennis, James

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

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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