Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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

Franklin, Benjamin

I grow old learning something new every day.

Solon

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

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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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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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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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Bennis, James

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

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

Baker, Newton D.

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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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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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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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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Zinn, Jon Kabat

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Churchill, Winston

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

George Iles