Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Landau, Saul

Best Quotes about Learning

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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

Rogers, Will

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

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

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

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

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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Bennis, James

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Hitopadesa

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Carte, L.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

King, Doug

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

Confucius

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George Iles

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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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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis