Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Learning

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

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

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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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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.

Hazlitt, William

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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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.

37.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

Crosby, Cathy Lee

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

Wooden, John

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Mckay, David O.