Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Learning

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

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

Confucius

Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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

Steinem, Gloria

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Wooden, John

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Carte, L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Heinlein, Robert

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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

George Iles

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

Bible

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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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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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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 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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This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Hitopadesa

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Rogers, Will

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

King, Doug

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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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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

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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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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic