Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

King, Doug

11.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

12.

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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

Proverb, Latin

16.

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

Hall, Milton

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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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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Euripides

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

Trotsky, Leon

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Hitopadesa

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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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Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Heinlein, Robert

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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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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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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

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

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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Rogers, Will

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

Adler, Mortimer J.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa