Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Hall, Milton

Best Quotes about Learning

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

I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

Mckay, David O.

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hall, Milton

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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

Hitopadesa

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bennis, James

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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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

Confucius

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

Virgil

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

Carte, L.

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

Wooden, John

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

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

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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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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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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Smith, Lillian

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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