Motivational Quotes

Learning

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

- Keyes Jr., Ken

Best Quotes about Learning

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

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Doris Lessing

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

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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

Virgil

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

White, Patrick

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Bennis, James

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gregory The Great, St.

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

King, Doug

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

Proverb, English

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carte, L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Kraus, Karl

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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