Motivational Quotes

Learning

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

- Trotsky, Leon

Best Quotes about Learning

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Young

Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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

Hall, Milton

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

Kraus, Karl

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

Wooden, John

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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Income seldom exceeds personal development.

Rohn, Jim

15.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Proverb, English

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Einstein, Albert

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.

Keyes Jr., Ken

28.

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

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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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Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

31.

That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.

Hitopadesa

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Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Burns, George

33.

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

Steinem, Gloria

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

38.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

44.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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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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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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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