Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Young

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

Churchill, Winston

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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.

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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Virgil

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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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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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

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

Confucius

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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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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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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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

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

Hitopadesa

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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