Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Learning. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Malcolm Gladwell

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

Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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

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

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

Heinlein, Robert

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Bennis, James

12.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

13.

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

Virgil

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

Steinem, Gloria

15.

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

Hall, Milton

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

26.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

27.

You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

28.

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

Ruskin, John

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George Iles

35.

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

Bible

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

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

39.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

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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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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

42.

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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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

44.

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Dubos, Rene

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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 how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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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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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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