Motivational Quotes

Learning

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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.

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

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Doris Lessing

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

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

Seneca

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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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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What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

King, Doug

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

White, Patrick

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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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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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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Landau, Saul

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

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What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, 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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Latin

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