Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Palmer, George Herbert

Best Quotes about Learning

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.

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

Virgil

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

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Steinem, Gloria

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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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 is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Albrecht, F.

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

Bennis, James

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Heinlein, Robert

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Wooden, John

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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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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

George Iles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi