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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Palmer, George Herbert

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

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

Proverb, Latin

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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 never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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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.

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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Naisbitt, John

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

Ruskin, 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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Young

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

Mckay, David O.

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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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Confucius

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