Motivational Quotes

Learning

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Confucius

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

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

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

Bennis, James

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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

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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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 is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Waitley, Denis

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Proverb, Latin

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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 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

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Wooden, John

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Dubos, Rene

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Young, Edward

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Carte, L.

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The best results are achieved by using the right amount of effort in the right place at the right time. And this right amount is usually less than we think we need. In other words, the less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be... the key to faster learning is to use appropriate effort. Greater effort can exacerbate faulty patterns of action. Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation. Learning something new often requires us to unlearn something old.

Buzan, Tony

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

White, Patrick

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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