Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Einstein, Albert

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Smith, Lillian

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

Carte, L.

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Virgil

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Hitopadesa

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The things which hurt, instruct.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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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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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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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Proverb, Latin

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Steinem, Gloria

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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

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Hall, Milton

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

White, Patrick

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Old foxes want no tutors.