Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Doris Lessing

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

10.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

11.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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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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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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

Kipling, Rudyard

18.

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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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

20.

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

21.

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

Buzan, Tony

24.

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

Lessing, Doris

25.

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

Ruskin, John

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Landau, Saul

28.

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

Wooden, John

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

White, Patrick

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

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

34.

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

King, Doug

35.

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

36.

No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

38.

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Carte, L.

40.

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

42.

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

Trotsky, Leon

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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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

47.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Cash, Johnny

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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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Naisbitt, John

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster