Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Learning

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Young, Edward

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are.

Mckay, David O.

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

Dubos, Rene

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Twain, Mark

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

Virgil

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

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The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Peck, M. Scott

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

Hall, Milton

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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

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

Euripides

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

White, Patrick

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

Proverb, Latin

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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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 a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

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

Albrecht, F.

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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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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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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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