Motivational Quotes

Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

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

Young

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

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

George Iles

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Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Virgil

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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

Kraus, Karl

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Young, Edward

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hall, Milton

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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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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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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