Motivational Quotes

Learning

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

Best Quotes about Learning

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Eugene S. Wilson

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

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

Buzan, Tony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Rohn, Jim

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

Twain, Mark

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

Baker, Newton D.

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

Confucius

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

Wooden, John

10.

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

11.

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hitopadesa

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

14.

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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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 things which hurt, instruct.

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

Albrecht, F.

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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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Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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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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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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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Young, Edward

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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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Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

Solari, Enrique

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Hall, Milton

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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

39.

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Learning is a livelihood.

Hitopadesa

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

Sahler, Leslie Jeanne

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

Seneca

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heinlein, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert