Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Learning

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

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

Carte, L.

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

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

Old foxes want no tutors.

Fuller, Thomas

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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

Wooden, John

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

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

Rogers, Will

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Proverb, Latin

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

Bible

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

Confucius

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bennis, James

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

White, Patrick

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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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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