Motivational Quotes

Learning

I grow old learning something new every day.

- Solon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Albrecht, F.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em,'Certainly I can!'Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

Hillel, Rabbi

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The things which hurt, instruct.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

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

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You can't learn less.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

Young

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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Confucius

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

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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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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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When I learn something new-and it happens every day-I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Moyers, Bill

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

Carte, L.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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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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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.

Jensen, Eric

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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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

Young, Edward