Motivational Quotes

Learning

All learning has an emotional base.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Virgil

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner

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

Young

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bible

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

Wooden, John

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

White, Patrick

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Confucius

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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 things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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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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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Buzan, Tony

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

Dubos, Rene

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

Albrecht, F.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Euripides

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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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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

Hitopadesa

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

King, Doug

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